From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Instead of giving up after 3 immediate retries of driver initiated commands, back off the rate of retries and retry a bunch more times. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index 5015ac4..cb9d619 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -1380,17 +1380,24 @@ static void hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd_core_if_no_lockup(struct ctlr_info *h, } } +#define MAX_DRIVER_CMD_RETRIES 25 static void hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd_with_retry(struct ctlr_info *h, struct CommandList *c, int data_direction) { - int retry_count = 0; + int backoff_time = 10, retry_count = 0; do { memset(c->err_info, 0, sizeof(*c->err_info)); hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd_core(h, c); retry_count++; + if (retry_count > 3) { + msleep(backoff_time); + if (backoff_time < 1000) + backoff_time *= 2; + } } while ((check_for_unit_attention(h, c) || - check_for_busy(h, c)) && retry_count <= 3); + check_for_busy(h, c)) && + retry_count <= MAX_DRIVER_CMD_RETRIES); hpsa_pci_unmap(h->pdev, c, 1, data_direction); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html