On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:27:15 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Kernel waiting 2 minutes on TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE is certainly > > broken. > > What should it do when the NFS server doesn't answer anymore or > when the network to the SAN RAID array located a few hundred KM away > develops some hickup? Or just the SCSI driver decides to do lengthy > error recovery -- you could argue that is broken if it takes longer > than 2 minutes, but in practice these things are hard to test > and to fix. > the scsi layer will have the IO totally aborted within that time anyway; the retry timeout for disks is 30 seconds after all. -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
