hv_vmbus: Add gradually increased delay for retries in vmbus_post_msg()

Most of the retries can be done within a millisecond successfully, so we
sleep 1ms before the first retry, then gradually increase the retry
interval to 2^n with max value of 2048ms. Doing so, we will have shorter
overall delay time, because most of the cases succeed within 1-2 attempts.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index 583d7d4..b27220a 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@
 	union hv_connection_id conn_id;
 	int ret = 0;
 	int retries = 0;
+	u32 msec = 1;
 
 	conn_id.asu32 = 0;
 	conn_id.u.id = VMBUS_MESSAGE_CONNECTION_ID;
@@ -431,7 +432,7 @@
 	 * insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of
 	 * times before giving up.
 	 */
-	while (retries < 10) {
+	while (retries < 20) {
 		ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
 
 		switch (ret) {
@@ -454,7 +455,9 @@
 		}
 
 		retries++;
-		msleep(1000);
+		msleep(msec);
+		if (msec < 2048)
+			msec *= 2;
 	}
 	return ret;
 }