Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 01/10] Drivers: hv: util: Increase the timeout for util services | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:40:57 +0000 |
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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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