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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:56:19 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009105619.1189c050@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381269153.7979.281.camel@snotra.buserror.net>


> > > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes
> > > sense to do the same on powernv.
> > 
> > I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c.
> 
> Why is 64-bit relevant?  And wouldn't such a short delay be a problem
> if the crash is displayed on a monitor?

That is why we made it pseries specific in the past. Almost all our
boxes are on a virtual console and the 3 minutes of pausing just hurt
our uptimes.

If other platform maintainers prefer to keep the 3 minute pause, then
we just change the PowerNV platform.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26 11:17 [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s Anton Blanchard
2013-10-01  8:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-08 21:52   ` Scott Wood
2013-10-08 23:56     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-30 21:20 [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce pseries " Anton Blanchard
2014-04-30 21:29 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-04-30 22:07   ` [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Reduce " Anton Blanchard

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