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corosync.conf.5: add warning about slow watchdogs

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wágner <wferi@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Friesse <jfriesse@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit b510a0f45c3a55499e58cc47549a74fe80ff1b39)
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@@ -694,6 +694,13 @@ watchdog_device
 Watchdog device to use.
 The default value is /dev/watchdog.
 The special value "off" disables watchdog usage.
+.IP
+In a cluster with properly configured power fencing a watchdog
+provides no additional value.  On the other hand, slow watchdog
+communication may incur multi-second delays in the Corosync main loop,
+potentially breaking down membership.  IPMI watchdogs are particularly
+notorious in this regard: read about kipmid_max_busy_us in IPMI.txt in
+the Linux kernel documentation.
 
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