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 Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 5b8668accf8e..3ae6afc02ee5 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -1409,6 +1409,12 @@ 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 zoned + * write pipelining is enabled. + */ + if (blk_pipeline_zwr(rq->q) && 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,