Michael Frank wrote:
Current Netpoll init does not trust carrier detected
right upon bringing the NIC up and waits for a delay
before allowing boot to continue.
The delay varied with the kernel version:
10 seconds in 2.6.11
3 seconds in 2.6.12
4 seconds in 2.6.13 and later
Any significant delay is undesired in production
environments as 3 seconds boot the entire kernel.
The patch reduces the delay to about 300msec +
NIC startup time.
The adjusted timeout mechanism polls the carrier every 100ms
and polls for a good carrier for N_CARRIER_POLL (3)
_consecutive_ cycles or 10s maximum.
Why do you increase the maximum again?
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