[PATCH 49/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Increase the timeout value in vmbus_request_offers()

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Tue Jun 7 21:20:16 UTC 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:45 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at suse.de; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization at lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang;
> Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD)
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 49/49] Staging: hv: vmbus: Increase the timeout value in
> vmbus_request_offers()
> 
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:50:13PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Increase the timeout value in vmbus_request_offers().
> 
> Why?  What does this solve/fix/prevent?

On some very loaded systems, when we tested the 1 second timeout that
we had prior to this patch was insufficient. So I bumped it to 5 seconds.

Regards,

K. Y



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