From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: wait up to 5 minutes for device connection
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:21:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4E765F.4000501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090703160046.GA4262@infradead.org>
On 07/03/09 18:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:12:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Increases the device timeout from 10s to 5 minutes, giving the user a visual
>> indication during that time in case there are problems. The patch is a
>> backport of changesets 144, 146, 150 and 909 in the Xenbits tree.
>
> Why would it take 5 minutes to wait for a device?
Usually it is *much* faster, but when the host is quite loaded it can
take a unusual long time. With 10 seconds it happends in practice now
and then that a virtual machine fails to boot just because the virtual
root disk didn't show up fast enough.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-03 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-03 13:12 [PATCH] xen: wait up to 5 minutes for device connection Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-03 13:28 ` Ian Campbell
2009-07-03 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-03 21:21 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-07-04 15:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-07-06 7:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-06 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-07-08 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] xen: fix is_disconnected_device/exists_disconnected_device Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-08 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] xen: improvement to wait_for_devices() Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-08 10:27 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] xen: wait up to 5 minutes for device connetion Paolo Bonzini
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