[PATCHv2 05/10] blk-mq: Allow requests to never expire
Jens Axboe
axboe at fb.com
Wed Jan 7 08:16:17 PST 2015
On 01/06/2015 07:57 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> Some requests may be started but have no gaurantee they'll ever
> complete. This defines a special timeout value that a driver can use so
> the request will never be timed out.
What if the timeout just happens to be UINT_MAX for the regular case? I
think it'd be a lot safer to add a specific no-timeout flag to the
request instead.
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Jens Axboe
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