Enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout

There's no point in having too short SG_IO timeouts, since if the command does end up timing out, we'll end up through the reset sequence that is several seconds long in order to abort the command that timed out. As a result, shorter timeouts than a few seconds simply do not make sense, as the recovery would be longer than the timeout itself. Add a BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT to match the existign BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT. Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
yi-yang · Dec 5, 2008 · f2f1fa7 · f2f1fa7
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diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ static int blk_fill_sgv4_hdr_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 		rq->timeout = q->sg_timeout;
 	if (!rq->timeout)
 		rq->timeout = BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT;
+	if (rq->timeout < BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT)
+		rq->timeout = BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT;
 
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ static int blk_fill_sghdr_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 		rq->timeout = q->sg_timeout;
 	if (!rq->timeout)
 		rq->timeout = BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT;
+	if (rq->timeout < BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT)
+		rq->timeout = BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT;
 
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ extern unsigned long blk_max_low_pfn, blk_max_pfn;
  * default timeout for SG_IO if none specified
  */
 #define BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT	(60 * HZ)
+#define BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT	(7 * HZ)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BOUNCE
 extern int init_emergency_isa_pool(void);