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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Increase hotplug timeout

To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Increase hotplug timeout
From: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:40:04 +0200
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> > When a process in dom0 is writing huge amount of data to a disk in
> > parallel to creating new domain, it may take quite a lot of time
> > until all hotplug scripts finish. For example, on my system it takes
> > almost 5 minutes to start all hotplug scripts.
> 
> That's a very long time.  All of that for just one domain ?

Yes. Just a single domain with one nic and one disk.

> Perhaps it would be best to make the timeout configurable, but leave
> the default unchanged ?

You're right, this might be a better way... I'll provide a new patch.

Jirka


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