Move the initialization of scsi_cmd->jiffies_at_alloc to allocation time rather than prep time. Also ensure that jiffies_at_alloc is preserved when we go through prep. This lets us send retries through prep again and not break the overall retry timer logic in scsi_softirq_done. Suggested-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1154,6 +1154,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic void *buf = cmd->sense_buffer; void *prot = cmd->prot_sdb; unsigned int unchecked_isa_dma = cmd->flags & SCMD_UNCHECKED_ISA_DMA; + unsigned long jiffies_at_alloc = cmd->jiffies_at_alloc; /* zero out the cmd, except for the embedded scsi_request */ memset((char *)cmd + sizeof(cmd->req), 0, @@ -1164,7 +1165,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic cmd->prot_sdb = prot; cmd->flags = unchecked_isa_dma; INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&cmd->abort_work, scmd_eh_abort_handler); - cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies; + cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies_at_alloc; scsi_add_cmd_to_list(cmd); } @@ -2119,6 +2120,7 @@ static int scsi_init_rq(struct request_q if (!cmd->sense_buffer) goto fail; cmd->req.sense = cmd->sense_buffer; + cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies; if (scsi_host_get_prot(shost) >= SHOST_DIX_TYPE0_PROTECTION) { cmd->prot_sdb = kmem_cache_zalloc(scsi_sdb_cache, gfp);