[RFC] Update empty qmi|mbim-proxy lifetime from 30s to 300s

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 14:23 +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> ModemManager 1.10 introduced the concept of "inhibiting devices"
> which
> is basically a way to tell MM to temporarily stop using a given
> modem,
> e.g. if we want to do a firmware upgrade.
> 
> Once a device is inhibited, all clients of the qmi|mbim-proxy
> processes that were created by MM gets removed, and so the proxies
> may
> end up without any client and the "empty proxy lifetime" timeout
> kicks
> in. This timeout is currently 30s, and when it's reached, the proxy
> process finishes by itself.

I probably missed the intricacies of the inhibit discussion, but do the
proxies know anything about the inhibition? Would it help to have some
kind of feature of the proxy to say "hey don't go away for a while"?

But for the interim, I don't have a problem with the 300s plan.

Dan

> I'd like to increase this timeout to a much longer value, e.g. 300s,
> because I wouldn't want other processes to have to restart the
> proxies
> themselves while the device inhibition in MM is ongoing.
> 
> I know systems where the proxies are running from system boot,
> without
> any "empty proxy lifetime", but that is probably overkill as a
> default, so how about using a 300s timeout instead of 30s? That would
> at least solve my issues with fwupd as 300s is long enough for a FW
> update to be performed, and so the proxies are not
> finished/restarted/finished/restarted during the upgrade.
> 
> What do you think?
>