<font size=2 face="sans-serif">While working on a patch to implement hard
reboot for the powervm driver [1], I noticed that the stop_lpar (power_off)
method has a timeout argument with a default value of 30 seconds but it's
not overridden anywhere in the code and it's not configurable. The
start_lpar (power_on) method doesn't have a timeout at all. I was
thinking about creating a patch to (1) make start_lpar poll until the instance
is running and (2) making the stop/start timeouts configurable with a new
config option, something like powervm_lpar_operation_timeout that defaults
to 60 seconds.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I looked in nova.conf.sample for existing
timeout options and found this one for the xen virt driver:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"># number of seconds to wait for instance
to go to running</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"># state (integer value)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">#xenapi_running_timeout=60</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm looking to basically get a feeling
of what kind of reaction I'll get if I put a patch up with a new config
option for this in the powervm driver. If there aren't any major
pushes against it, I'll start working a patch.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[1] </font><a href=https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40748/><font size=3 color=blue><u>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40748/</u></font></a><font size=3>
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<br><font size=1 face="Arial">Thanks,</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#8f8f8f face="Arial"><b>MATT RIEDEMANN</b></font><font size=1 face="Arial"><br>
Advisory Software Engineer<br>
Cloud Solutions and OpenStack Development</font>
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