RE: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Raise retry/wait limits in vmbus_post_msg()

From: Van De Ven, Arjan
Date: Mon Oct 31 2016 - 06:06:37 EST


> Ok,
>
> I actually tested boot time with my patch and didn't see a difference
> (so I guess our first attempt to send messages usually succeeds) but if
> we're concearned about less-than-a-second boot time we'd rather keep the
> microseonds delay for first several attempts. I'll do v2.

of course we care about less-than-a-second boot time..
it's a virtual machine.. there's no reason the kernel should ever take more than 100 msec total
(including all drivers)