diff --git a/cmd/core/main.go b/cmd/core/main.go
index 93edccf08..ad4f05818 100644
--- a/cmd/core/main.go
+++ b/cmd/core/main.go
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ func main() {
 	flag.StringVar(&storageDriver, "storage-driver", "Local", "Application file save to the storage driver")
 	flag.DurationVar(&syncPeriod, "informer-re-sync-interval", 60*time.Minute,
 		"controller shared informer lister full re-sync period")
+	flag.DurationVar(&commonconfig.ReconcileTimeout, "reconcile-timeout", time.Minute*3,
+		"the timeout for controller reconcile")
 	flag.StringVar(&oam.SystemDefinitonNamespace, "system-definition-namespace", "vela-system", "define the namespace of the system-level definition")
 	flag.IntVar(&controllerArgs.ConcurrentReconciles, "concurrent-reconciles", 4, "concurrent-reconciles is the concurrent reconcile number of the controller. The default value is 4")
 	flag.Float64Var(&qps, "kube-api-qps", 50, "the qps for reconcile clients. Low qps may lead to low throughput. High qps may give stress to api-server. Raise this value if concurrent-reconciles is set to be high.")
diff --git a/design/api/vela-controller-params-reference.md b/design/api/vela-controller-params-reference.md
index 5e3c95572..96b743499 100644
--- a/design/api/vela-controller-params-reference.md
+++ b/design/api/vela-controller-params-reference.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 |        disable-caps         | string |                ""                 |           To be disabled builtin capability list.            |
 |       storage-driver        | string |               Local               |         Application file save to the storage driver          |
 |  informer-re-sync-interval  |  time  |                1h                 | Controller shared informer lister full re-sync period, the interval between two routinely reconciles for one CR (like Application) if no changes made to it. |
+|      reconcile-timeout      |  time  |                3m                 |           The timeout for controller reconcile.              |
 | system-definition-namespace | string |            vela-system            |     define the namespace of the system-level definition      |
 |    concurrent-reconciles    |  int   |                 4                 | The concurrent reconcile number of the controller. You can increase the degree of concurrency if a large number of CPU cores are provided to the controller. |
 |        kube-api-qps         |  int   |                50                 | The qps for reconcile k8s clients. Increase it if you have high concurrency. A small number might restrict the requests to the api-server which may cause a long waiting queue when there are a large number of inflight requests. Try to avoid setting it too high since it will cause large burden on apiserver. |
@@ -39,4 +40,4 @@
 | Medium | < 500   |   < 5,000     | < 30,000 |              4        |      500     |      800       |     1 |   2Gi  |
 | Large | < 1,000  |   < 12,000    | < 72,000 |              4        |      800     |     1,000      |     2 |   4Gi  |
 
-> For details, read KubeVela Performance Test Report
\ No newline at end of file
+> For details, read KubeVela Performance Test Report
diff --git a/pkg/controller/common/context.go b/pkg/controller/common/context.go
index ace5b4b05..fab0daa4b 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/common/context.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/common/context.go
@@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ var (
 	PerfEnabled = false
 )
 
-const (
-	reconcileTimeout = time.Minute
+var (
+	// ReconcileTimeout timeout for controller to reconcile
+	ReconcileTimeout = time.Minute * 3
 )
 
 // NewReconcileContext create context with default timeout (60s)
 func NewReconcileContext(ctx context.Context) (context.Context, context.CancelFunc) {
-	return context.WithTimeout(ctx, reconcileTimeout)
+	return context.WithTimeout(ctx, ReconcileTimeout)
 }