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From: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Fix a problem that messages are not issued in run_to_completion mode
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 21:01:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554B542A.9090800@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554A08CF.4000509@acm.org>

(2015/05/06 21:27), Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 04/28/2015 07:41 AM, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that there are possible infinite loops in the
>> panic notifier call of IPMI driver (we assume BMC is
>> unreliable).  To evict possible infinite loops, I'm considering
>> introducing some retry timeout or retry count limit to the
>> run_to_completion procedure.
>>
>> Do you have any opinions?
> That's probably a good idea.  My thought was to keep trying in hopes of
> getting something out, but you are probably right, a timeout after a few
> minutes is probably appropriate.

OK, I'll do that as the next task.
Thank you!

-- 
Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group



      reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-23  2:16 [PATCH] ipmi: Fix a problem that messages are not issued in run_to_completion mode Hidehiro Kawai
2015-04-24 13:00 ` Corey Minyard
2015-04-28 12:41   ` Hidehiro Kawai
2015-05-06 12:27     ` Corey Minyard
2015-05-07 12:01       ` Hidehiro Kawai [this message]

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