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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Amit Shah <aams@amazon.de>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Adding per-controller timeout support to nvme
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:07:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190424200706.GB15412@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb33a464-af65-abec-5ff1-15925e7669a4@grimberg.me>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:55:16AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > As different nvme controllers are connect via different fabrics, some require
> > different timeout settings than others. This series implements per-controller
> > timeouts in the nvme subsystem which can be set via sysfs.
> 
> How much of a real issue is this?
> 
> block io_timeout defaults to 30 seconds which are considered a universal
> eternity for pretty much any nvme fabric. Moreover, io_timeout is
> mutable already on a per-namespace level.
> 
> This leaves the admin_timeout which goes beyond this to 60 seconds...
> 
> Can you describe what exactly are you trying to solve?

I think they must have an nvme target that is backed by slow media
(i.e. non-SSD). If that's the case, I think it may be a better option
if the target advertises relatively shallow queue depths and/or lower
MDTS that better aligns to the backing storage capabilies.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-24 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 12:35 Maximilian Heyne
2019-04-03 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] nvme: add per-controller io and admin timeouts Maximilian Heyne
2019-04-03 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] nvme: add sysfs controls for " Maximilian Heyne
2019-04-09 10:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-24 16:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Adding per-controller timeout support to nvme Sagi Grimberg
2019-04-24 20:07   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-04-24 20:30     ` David Woodhouse
2019-04-24 20:44       ` Keith Busch
2019-04-24 20:58       ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-04-25  5:45         ` David Woodhouse

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