On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:48:44AM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > Does this change the promptness of fault detection at all? ?That is,
> > will it wait longer in some cases to detect a fault?
>
> Since the previous patch, fault status only changes when fault_timer
> runs once every interval * 3.5 seconds. There are some things we
> could do to improve the responsiveness if necessary. First, we could
> have per-rmp fault timers. Second, we could unfault cfm when a
> heartbeat causes the last faulted rmp to suddenly come up. I'm not
> sure it's worth it at this point though.
I don't know either. Let's leave it as-is for now. We can even call
it a feature ("debouncing").
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