Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:57:55 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softlockup: re-increase hung tasks check from 2 minutes
 to 8 minutes
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* Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:

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> On 05/06/2011 03:18 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>  Commit e162b39a, which moved the soft lockup code around a bit,
> >>  accidentally reverted commit fb822db4, which extended the soft lockup
> >>  timeout from 2 minutes to 8 minutes.
> >>
> >>  This patch restores it to 8 minutes.
> > 
> > This patch wont apply, because i already have your other patch committed. Could 
> > you do it against latest -tip:
> > 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> After Andrew commented, and I agreed, that the sysctl should just be set
> instead of adding another config option I was thinking we'd just drop
> the other patch and replace it with this one.

Well, since i already applied it please revert it in this second change and 
explain that you and Andrew think the config is unnecessary and we can just up 
the timeout back to 8 minutes and most everyone will be happy ...

Thanks,

	Ingo
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