RE: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geert.uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:geert.uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:40 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Mike Christie; Jack Wang; Greg KH; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Ideally, I want this to be adjustable like the way we can change the I/O timeout.
Since that has been attempted earlier and rejected (not clear what the reasons were),
I was suggesting that we pick a larger number. James, let me know how I should proceed here.

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 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
N‹§²æìr¸›yúèšØb²X¬¶ÇvØ^–)Þ{.nÇ+‰·¥Š{±‘êçzX§¶›¡Ü}©ž²ÆzÚ&j:+v‰¨¾«‘êçzZ+€Ê+zf£¢·hšˆ§~†­†Ûiÿûàz¹®w¥¢¸?™¨è­Ú&¢)ßf”ù^jÇy§m…á@A«a¶Úÿ0¶ìh®å’i