If the write order is preserved, increase the number of retries for write commands sent to a sequential zone to the maximum number of outstanding commands because in the worst case the number of times reordered zoned writes have to be retried is (number of outstanding writes per sequential zone) - 1. Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 8947dab132d7..117fce3b1c7b 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -1408,6 +1408,13 @@ static blk_status_t sd_setup_read_write_cmnd(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd) cmd->transfersize = sdp->sector_size; cmd->underflow = nr_blocks << 9; cmd->allowed = sdkp->max_retries; + /* + * Increase the number of allowed retries for zoned writes if the driver + * preserves the command order. + */ + if (rq->q->limits.driver_preserves_write_order && + blk_rq_is_seq_zoned_write(rq)) + cmd->allowed += rq->q->nr_requests; cmd->sdb.length = nr_blocks * sdp->sector_size; SCSI_LOG_HLQUEUE(1,