Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:36:32 +0200 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tpm: Make timeout logic simpler and more robust |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 04:54:04PM -0700, Calvin Owens wrote: > We're having lots of problems with TPM commands timing out, and we're > seeing these problems across lots of different hardware (both v1/v2). > > I instrumented the driver to collect latency data, but I wasn't able to > find any specific timeout to fix: it seems like many of them are too > aggressive. So I tried replacing all the timeout logic with a single > universal long timeout, and found that makes our TPMs 100% reliable. > > Given that this timeout logic is very complex, problematic, and appears > to serve no real purpose, I propose simply deleting all of it. > > Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Have been thinking about this and I do agree. It has been like that before my times with this subsystem so when I did the original TPM2 patches I carried this logic albeit even at that point I did not get it. Now that I've been maintaining for over three years I'm confident that this the Right Thing to do.
/Jarkko
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