On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:09:59PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2008 12:24:54 Max Krasnyansky wrote: > > Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:56:18AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > This is asking for trouble... a config option to disable this would be > > > nice. But as I don't know which problem this patch originally addresses > > > it might be that this is needed anyway. So lets see why we need it first. > > > > How about this. We'll make this a sysctl, as Rusty already did, and set the > > default to 0 which means "never timeout". That way crazy people like me who > > care about this scenario can enable this feature. > > Indeed, this was my thought too. s390 can initialize it to zero somewhere in > their boot code. Shouldn't we default to zero and let whowever wants something different configure that via sysctl.conf? Whatever default value > 0 you pick is likely wrong for whatever specific usecase. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
