Trent Piepho wrote:
> Oh, of course. I had ignored the retries because it seemed like a bad
> idea. If the timeout is based on time, why does it matter how many tries
> there were?
Because then you have a guaranteed number of tries, even if the timeout
value was reached due to some reason.
> Still, if you want to wait at least 25 ms, on a HZ=1000 system you might
> wait only 3 ms.
I'm sorry, I fail to see this. If there are more than three retries,
then there is still the time_before-condition which keeps the loop
running until the timeout is reached, no?
> And on a HZ=100 system, you'll wait at least 60 ms when
> the timeout only needed to be 25 ms.
Yes, because there is this policy to retry at least three times. Maybe
it is an idea to introduce a module parameter which lets the user select
a suitable retry parameter?
Wolfram
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