[PATCH 01/10] Drivers: hv: util: Increase the timeout for util services

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf at aepfle.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 6:24 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; apw at canonical.com; vkuznets at redhat.com;
> jasowang at 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