Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:09:24 +0200 | | From | Heiko Carstens <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] stopmachine: add stopmachine_timeout | |
> >> So I think monotonic wallclock time actually makes the most sense here.
> >
> > This is asking for trouble... a config option to disable this would be
> > nice. But as I don't know which problem this patch originally addresses
> > it might be that this is needed anyway. So lets see why we need it first.
> How about this. We'll make this a sysctl, as Rusty already did, and set the
> default to 0 which means "never timeout". That way crazy people like me who
> care about this scenario can enable this feature.
Yes, sounds like that should work for everyone and no additional config
option as well. Sounds good to me.
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