[PATCH V2 4/5] nvme: add sysfs attribute to change IO timeout per nvme controller
Maurizio Lombardi
mlombard at redhat.com
Fri Feb 20 04:51:07 PST 2026
Currently, there is no method to adjust the timeout values on a
per controller basis with nvme I/O queues.
Add an io_timeout attribute to nvme so that different nvme controllers
which may have different timeout requirements can have custom
I/O timeouts set.
Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard at redhat.com>
---
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 ++
drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 1 +
drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index bca3a7a0bd88..af0710c031e7 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -4170,6 +4170,7 @@ static void nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
mutex_unlock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
goto out_unlink_ns;
}
+ blk_queue_rq_timeout(ns->queue, ctrl->io_timeout);
nvme_ns_add_to_ctrl_list(ns);
mutex_unlock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
synchronize_srcu(&ctrl->srcu);
@@ -5108,6 +5109,7 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct device *dev,
memset(&ctrl->ka_cmd, 0, sizeof(ctrl->ka_cmd));
ctrl->ka_cmd.common.opcode = nvme_admin_keep_alive;
ctrl->ka_last_check_time = jiffies;
+ ctrl->io_timeout = NVME_IO_TIMEOUT;
BUILD_BUG_ON(NVME_DSM_MAX_RANGES * sizeof(struct nvme_dsm_range) >
PAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index 9a5f28c5103c..ef390a020d8d 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ struct nvme_ctrl {
u16 mtfa;
u32 ctrl_config;
u32 queue_count;
+ u32 io_timeout;
u64 cap;
u32 max_hw_sectors;
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c b/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
index 7733ca362ccb..8f5ac73129bc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
@@ -635,6 +635,45 @@ static ssize_t nvme_admin_timeout_store(struct device *dev,
static DEVICE_ATTR(admin_timeout, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
nvme_admin_timeout_show, nvme_admin_timeout_store);
+static ssize_t nvme_io_timeout_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", jiffies_to_msecs(ctrl->io_timeout));
+}
+
+static ssize_t nvme_io_timeout_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ struct nvme_ns *ns;
+ u32 timeout;
+ int err;
+
+ err = kstrtou32(buf, 10, &timeout);
+ if (err || !timeout)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Take the namespaces_lock to avoid racing against nvme_alloc_ns() */
+ mutex_lock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
+
+ ctrl->io_timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(timeout);
+ list_for_each_entry(ns, &ctrl->namespaces, list)
+ blk_queue_rq_timeout(ns->queue, ctrl->io_timeout);
+
+ if (ctrl->ops->flags & NVME_F_FABRICS)
+ blk_queue_rq_timeout(ctrl->connect_q, ctrl->io_timeout);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&ctrl->namespaces_lock);
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(io_timeout, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
+ nvme_io_timeout_show, nvme_io_timeout_store);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH
static ssize_t nvme_ctrl_dhchap_secret_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
@@ -777,6 +816,7 @@ static struct attribute *nvme_dev_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_cntrltype.attr,
&dev_attr_dctype.attr,
&dev_attr_admin_timeout.attr,
+ &dev_attr_io_timeout.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_HOST_AUTH
&dev_attr_dhchap_secret.attr,
&dev_attr_dhchap_ctrl_secret.attr,
--
2.53.0
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