diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index 72a22b6c9682..12c6740398fa 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);
+	/*
+	 * 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);
 
-	/* 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);
-
-	/* 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;
@@ -678,6 +686,8 @@ 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..5c085ef4eda7 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);
+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