Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:29:00 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com [mailto:geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com] > On Behalf Of Geert Uytterhoeven > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:40 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Christie; Jack Wang; Greg KH; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; ohering@suse.com; jbottomley@parallels.com; > hch@infradead.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> wrote: > > I am not sure how that magic number was arrived at (the 60HZ number). We > want this to be little higher - > > "60 * HZ" means "60 seconds". > > > would there be any issues raising this to say 180 seconds. This is the value we > currently have for I/O > > timeout. > > So you want to replace it by "180 * HZ", which is ... another magic number?
Ideally, I want this to be adjustable like the way we can change the I/O timeout. Since that has been attempted earlier and rejected (not clear what the reasons were), I was suggesting that we pick a larger number. James, let me know how I should proceed here.
Regards,
K. Y > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds
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