Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min."): > On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 12:30 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > So papering over this with an increase in the timeout is probably > > proper. > > Yes :-/ > > > I'm tempted to suggest increasing the timeout onl

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 12:30 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > So papering over this with an increase in the timeout is probably > proper. Yes :-/ > I'm tempted to suggest increasing the timeout only on Linux. How tempted? Or shall I apply this patch? Ian. ___

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min."): > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:38:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm starting to think that this might be a real bug but that the bug > > might be "Linux's I/O subsystem sometimes produces appalling late

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-03 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:38:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup > timeout to 1min."): > > I have tested an increase timeout this night. And here are the result. > > > > The machine is a AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284, with 8G

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min."): > I have tested an increase timeout this night. And here are the result. > > The machine is a AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284, with 8G of RAM and 8 pCPU. > It's running Ubuntu 14.04, with Xen 4.4. On top o

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-02 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 04:03:55PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > * The number and nature of parallel operations done in the stress > > > > test is unreasonable for the provided hardware: > > > > => the timeout is fine > > > > > > I d

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-07-01 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > * The number and nature of parallel operations done in the stress > > > test is unreasonable for the provided hardware: > > > => the timeout is fine > > > > I don't know if it is our place to make this call. Should we really be > > decidin

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min."): > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup > > timeout to 1min."): > > In the third case we probably need a general-purpose

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-30 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Ian Jackson wrote: > Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup > timeout to 1min."): > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:51:57PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Nor does it really answer Ian's question in > > > <21901.33163.547929.321...@mariner.uk.x

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min."): > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:51:57PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Nor does it really answer Ian's question in > > <21901.33163.547929.321...@mariner.uk.xensource.com> I think. > > I only know what happe

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-29 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 17:09 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:51:57PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 15:23 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > > OK. What about: > > > > I'm afraid none of that really explains why QEMU taking >10s is > > reasonable/expect

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-29 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:51:57PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 15:23 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 05:41:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:57 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > > > On a busy host, QEMU may take more than 1

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 15:23 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 05:41:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:57 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > > On a busy host, QEMU may take more than 10s to start. > > > > Please show your working here so that in 2 years

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-29 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 05:41:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:57 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > On a busy host, QEMU may take more than 10s to start. > > Please show your working here so that in 2 years when we want to know > why this value was chosen we don't have to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:57 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On a busy host, QEMU may take more than 10s to start. Please show your working here so that in 2 years when we want to know why this value was chosen we don't have to go scrobbling around in the ML archives looking for the data you gathere

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Increase device model startup timeout to 1min.

2015-06-26 Thread Anthony PERARD
On a busy host, QEMU may take more than 10s to start. Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD --- tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h b/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h index e96d6b5..3a604f7 100644 --- a/tools/libxl/lib