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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xenpaging: use poll timeout if no paging target exists
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:14:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907161440.GA30695@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347033936.30018.134.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On Fri, Sep 07, Ian Campbell wrote:

> > +    /* Use a poll timeout until xenpaging got a target from xenstore */
> > +    paging->use_poll_timeout = 1;
> 
> Don't you want a negative (== infinite) timeout in this case?

Maybe, but this change is the simplest fix for the isse.
Waiting forever may have bad side effects, this is something to consider
for 4.3.

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-07 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-28  8:32 [PATCH] xenpaging: use poll timeout if no paging target exists Olaf Hering
2012-09-07 16:05 ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-07 16:14   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-09-08  5:44     ` Ian Campbell

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