From: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ata: libata-eh: avoid unnecessary calls to ata_scsi_port_error_handler()
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:06:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224020638.1194842-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> (raw)
When handling SCSI command timeouts, if we had no actual command
timeouts (either because the command was a deferred qc or the completion
path won the race with ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler()), we do not need to
go through a port error handling, as there was in fact no errors at all.
Modify ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler() to return the number of commands
that timed out and use this return value in ata_scsi_error() to call
ata_scsi_port_error_handler() only if we had command timeouts, or if
the port EH has already been scheduled due to failed commands.
Otherwise, simply call scsi_eh_flush_done_q() to finish the completed
commands without running the full port error handling.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
include/linux/libata.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index b373cceb95d2..c93423ce5258 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -560,21 +560,27 @@ void ata_scsi_error(struct Scsi_Host *host)
{
struct ata_port *ap = ata_shost_to_port(host);
unsigned long flags;
+ int nr_timedout;
LIST_HEAD(eh_work_q);
spin_lock_irqsave(host->host_lock, flags);
list_splice_init(&host->eh_cmd_q, &eh_work_q);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(host->host_lock, flags);
- ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(host, ap, &eh_work_q);
-
- /* If we timed raced normal completion and there is nothing to
- recover nr_timedout == 0 why exactly are we doing error recovery ? */
- ata_scsi_port_error_handler(host, ap);
+ /*
+ * First check what errors we got with ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler().
+ * If we had no command timeouts and EH is not scheduled for this port,
+ * meaning that we do not have any failed command, then there is no
+ * need to go through the full port error handling. We only need to
+ * flush the completed commands we have.
+ */
+ nr_timedout = ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(host, ap, &eh_work_q);
+ if (nr_timedout || ata_port_eh_scheduled(ap))
+ ata_scsi_port_error_handler(host, ap);
+ else
+ scsi_eh_flush_done_q(&ap->eh_done_q);
- /* finish or retry handled scmd's and clean up */
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&eh_work_q));
-
}
/**
@@ -586,9 +592,11 @@ void ata_scsi_error(struct Scsi_Host *host)
* process the given list of commands and return those finished to the
* ap->eh_done_q. This function is the first part of the libata error
* handler which processes a given list of failed commands.
+ *
+ * Return the number of commands that timed out.
*/
-void ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct ata_port *ap,
- struct list_head *eh_work_q)
+int ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct ata_port *ap,
+ struct list_head *eh_work_q)
{
int i;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -694,6 +702,8 @@ void ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct ata_port *ap,
ap->eh_tries = ATA_EH_MAX_TRIES;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(ap->lock, flags);
+
+ return nr_timedout;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler);
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index db87c99e4189..c872d1f9f43b 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -1225,7 +1225,8 @@ extern int ata_ncq_prio_enable(struct ata_port *ap, struct scsi_device *sdev,
extern struct ata_device *ata_dev_pair(struct ata_device *adev);
int ata_set_mode(struct ata_link *link, struct ata_device **r_failed_dev);
extern void ata_scsi_port_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct ata_port *ap);
-extern void ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host, struct ata_port *ap, struct list_head *eh_q);
+extern int ata_scsi_cmd_error_handler(struct Scsi_Host *host,
+ struct ata_port *ap, struct list_head *eh_q);
/*
* SATA specific code - drivers/ata/libata-sata.c
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-24 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-24 2:06 Damien Le Moal [this message]
2026-02-24 14:08 ` [PATCH] ata: libata-eh: avoid unnecessary calls to ata_scsi_port_error_handler() Niklas Cassel
2026-02-24 20:59 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-02-24 21:21 ` Martin K. Petersen
2026-02-25 6:22 ` Niklas Cassel
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