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    iscsi-target: Bump defaults for nopin_timeout + nopin_response_timeout values · cf0eb28d
    Nicholas Bellinger authored
    
    
    This patch increases the default for nopin_timeout to 15 seconds (wait
    between sending a new NopIN ping) and nopin_response_timeout to 30 seconds
    (wait for NopOUT response before failing the connection) in order to avoid
    false positives by iSCSI Initiators who are not always able (under load) to
    respond to NopIN echo PING requests within the current 5 second window.
    
    False positives have been observed recently using Open-iSCSI code on v3.3.x
    with heavy large-block READ workloads over small MTU 1 Gb/sec ports, and
    increasing these values to more reasonable defaults significantly reduces
    the possibility of false positive NopIN response timeout events under
    this specific workload.
    
    Historically these have been set low to initiate connection recovery as
    soon as possible if we don't hear a ping back, but for modern v3.x code
    on 1 -> 10 Gb/sec ports these new defaults make alot more sense.
    
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
    Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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