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SubjectRE: [PATCH 01/10] Drivers: hv: util: Increase the timeout for util services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@aepfle.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 6:24 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; apw@canonical.com; vkuznets@redhat.com;
> jasowang@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] Drivers: hv: util: Increase the timeout for util
> services
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
>
> > Util services such as KVP and FCOPY need assistance from daemon's
> running
> > in user space. Increase the timeout so we don't prematurely terminate
> > the transaction in the kernel.
>
> Is this an arbitrary number, or does the host allow such a large delay
> for the response?

Checked with the host guys and it looks like host sets up a 60
second timeout for each transaction and if it times out; it may retry.

Anything below 60 seconds should work for us.

I will add this to the commit log.

K. Y
>
> Olaf
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