Most of the retries can be done within a millisecond successfully, so we sleep 1ms before the first retry, then gradually increase the retry interval to 2^n with max value of 2048ms. Doing so, we will have shorter overall delay time, because most of the cases succeed within 1-2 attempts. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hv/connection.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c index 583d7d4..b27220a 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/connection.c +++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen) union hv_connection_id conn_id; int ret = 0; int retries = 0; + u32 msec = 1; conn_id.asu32 = 0; conn_id.u.id = VMBUS_MESSAGE_CONNECTION_ID; @@ -431,7 +432,7 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen) * insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of * times before giving up. */ - while (retries < 10) { + while (retries < 20) { ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen); switch (ret) { @@ -454,7 +455,9 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen) } retries++; - msleep(1000); + msleep(msec); + if (msec < 2048) + msec *= 2; } return ret; } -- 1.7.4.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel