[SCSI] hpsa: do not give up retry of driver cmds after only 3 retries
authorStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Tue, 1 May 2012 16:42:40 +0000 (11:42 -0500)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Thu, 10 May 2012 08:13:25 +0000 (09:13 +0100)
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@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c

index cc586972dd9c62c2fe2de7f502682ec1e7506fc1..fd4b683d69e5ecc2867f2113fbfcad03eda23ce9 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }