Make the redis_socket_timeout setting official (from 75ab5c3656c5fd04e6d86506cd4995a363813edd)

celery/app/defaults.py

@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ NAMESPACES = Namespace(
         max_connections=Option(type='int'),
         password=Option(type='string'),
         port=Option(type='int'),
+        socket_timeout=Option(5.0, type='float'),
     ),
     result=Namespace(
         __old__=old_ns('celery_result'),

docs/configuration.rst

@@ -692,6 +692,16 @@ redis_max_connections
 Maximum number of connections available in the Redis connection
 pool used for sending and retrieving results.
 
+.. setting:: redis_socket_timeout
+
+redis_socket_timeout
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Socket timeout for connections to Redis from the result backend
+in seconds (int/float)
+
+Default is 5 seconds.
+
 .. _conf-mongodb-result-backend:
 
 MongoDB backend settings