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authorWeiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>2018-12-26 06:56:33 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-01-05 05:19:51 +0300
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block: add documentation for io_timeout
Add documentation for /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -279,3 +279,12 @@ Description:
size in 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with
the eventual exception of the last zone of the device
which may be smaller.
+
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
+Date: November 2018
+Contact: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
+Description:
+ io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request
+ does not complete in this time then the block driver timeout
+ handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to retry
+ the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery strategy.