Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5048#discussion_r154499304
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flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/configuration/SlotOptions.java ---
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+package org.apache.flink.configuration;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;
+
+import static org.apache.flink.configuration.ConfigOptions.key;
+
+/**
+ * The set of configuration options relating to the slot.
+ */
+@PublicEvolving
+public class SlotOptions {
+
+ /**
+ * The timeout of a slot allocation.
+ * Including sending request to RM, slot offering from TM.
+ */
+ public static final ConfigOption<String> SLOT_ALLOCATION_TIMEOUT =
+ key("slot.allocation.timeout")
+ .defaultValue("10 min");
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let's make the timeouts to type long as simple milliseconds. This will
avoid using `Duration` for the parsing.
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