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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Matt Fleming" <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: "Zach Bobroff" <zacharyb@ami.com>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"Joey Lee" <JLee@suse.com>, <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:02:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BF08CD02000078000DEC99@nat28.tlf.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617101745.GB8569@console-pimps.org>

>>> On 17.06.13 at 12:17, Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun, at 10:46:28AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I agree that there ought to be an upper limit. But a single retry here
>> again looks like a tailored solution to a particular observed (mis-)
>> behavior, rather than something resulting from general considerations.
> 
> What value would you suggest for the retry?

I'd be considering something like 5...10, but this to some degree
depends on what odd kinds of behavior this in fact needs to
cover.

Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-11  6:52 Matt Fleming
2013-06-11  7:22 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-13 16:00 ` joeyli
2013-06-17  9:21   ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-17  9:46     ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-17 10:17       ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-17 10:41         ` joeyli
2013-06-17 11:02         ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2013-06-17 12:30           ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-18  0:18             ` Zachary Bobroff
2013-06-18  2:47               ` joeyli
2013-06-18  4:20                 ` Zachary Bobroff
2013-06-18  7:34                   ` joeyli
2013-06-18 13:03               ` Jan Beulich
2013-06-18 22:12                 ` Zachary Bobroff
2013-06-19  8:43                   ` matt
2013-06-19  8:53                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-20 18:04                       ` Zachary Bobroff
2013-06-26 13:12                         ` matt
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2013-05-22 14:15 Matt Fleming

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