[PATCH 1/3 RESEND] tpm: add longer timeouts for creation commands.

[Winkler, Tomas]

> 
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 06:04:56PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:09:09PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > > > > enum tpm_duration {
> > > > > 	TPM_DURATION_DEFAULT = 2000,
> > > > > 	TPM_DURATION_LONG = 300000,
> > > > > };
> > > > >
> > > > How is this aligned with the spec PTP spec?
> > >
> > > For TPM 2.0 that spec only partially defines durations for CCs and
> > > thus our look up table is already kind "flakky". In a sense that the
> > > default duration is upper limit for spec defined durations.
> >
> > The timeouts for LONG and MEDIUM is defined by the  PTP spec,  we need
> to maintain those as those effect the system.
> > The UNDEFINED and LONG LONG is the implementation choice we driver
> from empirical data we have so far.
> 
> Where can be get this empirical data?
>From testing the HW.
> 
> You are not only adding 30s delay but also turning the 2s delay to 12s delay.


I'm adding 3 min, no other changes.  Where is 12s?

> IMHO we could very well use PTP LONG for all commands as the timeout.
> Why that would not work?


Empirically it doesn't go test it you have the HW.

Thanks
Tomas

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