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-rw-r--r--nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/amazon-image.nix11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/amazon-image.nix b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/amazon-image.nix
index 31e15537179..36f3e7af873 100644
--- a/nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/amazon-image.nix
+++ b/nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/amazon-image.nix
@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ in {
 
   imports = [ ../../../modules/virtualisation/amazon-image.nix ];
 
-  # Required to provide good EBS experience,
+  # Amazon recomments setting this to the highest possible value for a good EBS
+  # experience, which prior to 4.15 was 255.
   # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/nvme-ebs-volumes.html#timeout-nvme-ebs-volumes
-  # TODO change value to 4294967295 when kernel is updated to 4.15 or later
-  config.boot.kernelParams = [ "nvme_core.io_timeout=255" ];
+  config.boot.kernelParams =
+    let timeout =
+      if pkgs.lib.versionAtLeast config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.version "4.15"
+      then "4294967295"
+      else  "255";
+    in [ "nvme_core.io_timeout=${timeout}" ];
 
   options.amazonImage = {
     name = mkOption {