# Re: \[PATCH 1/2\] scsi: Move scsi\_cmd-\>jiffies\_at\_alloc initialization to allocation time

- From: hch@lst.de \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2017-08-22 06:51:07 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2017/08/5072693
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2017/08/5068708/t.md

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On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 05:13:20PM -0500, Brian King wrote:
> Move the initialization of scsi_cmd->jiffies_at_alloc to allocation
> time rather than prep time. Also ensure that jiffies_at_alloc
> is preserved when we go through prep. This lets us send retries
> through prep again and not break the overall retry timer logic
> in scsi_softirq_done.
> 
> Suggested-by: Bart Van Assche <redacted>
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <redacted>

As far as I can tell this will never set jiffies_at_alloc for the
blk-mq path.
```