From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:40:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1379705547-15028-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20130920203222.GA14306@kroah.com> <524180B7.7090307@gmail.com> <3413dbd7fa254fd380a84fe6d9cd87e1@SN2PR03MB061.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <5241C9E7.2000404@cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Mike Christie , Jack Wang , Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "ohering@suse.com" , "jbottomley@parallels.com" , "hch@infradead.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote: > I am not sure how that magic number was arrived at (the 60HZ number). We want this to be little higher - "60 * HZ" means "60 seconds". > would there be any issues raising this to say 180 seconds. This is the value we currently have for I/O > timeout. So you want to replace it by "180 * HZ", which is ... another magic number? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds