diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
index 8186473b9aa72..1bfd0e17a4dcc 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
@@ -1953,6 +1953,16 @@ static void __dasd_device_process_final_queue(struct dasd_device *device,
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * check if device should be autoquiesced due to too many timeouts
+ */
+static void __dasd_device_check_autoquiesce_timeout(struct dasd_device *device,
+						    struct dasd_ccw_req *cqr)
+{
+	if ((device->default_retries - cqr->retries) >= device->aq_timeouts)
+		dasd_handle_autoquiesce(device, cqr, DASD_EER_TIMEOUTS);
+}
+
 /*
  * Take a look at the first request on the ccw queue and check
  * if it reached its expire time. If so, terminate the IO.
@@ -1987,6 +1997,7 @@ static void __dasd_device_check_expire(struct dasd_device *device)
 				"remaining\n", cqr, (cqr->expires/HZ),
 				cqr->retries);
 		}
+		__dasd_device_check_autoquiesce_timeout(device, cqr);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
index 95c7959c7949b..620fab01b710b 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
@@ -1552,6 +1552,52 @@ static ssize_t dasd_aqr_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 
 static DEVICE_ATTR(aq_requeue, 0644, dasd_aqr_show, dasd_aqr_store);
 
+/*
+ * aq_timeouts controls how much retries have to time out until
+ * a device gets autoquiesced
+ */
+static ssize_t
+dasd_aq_timeouts_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+		      char *buf)
+{
+	struct dasd_device *device;
+	int len;
+
+	device = dasd_device_from_cdev(to_ccwdev(dev));
+	if (IS_ERR(device))
+		return -ENODEV;
+	len = sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", device->aq_timeouts);
+	dasd_put_device(device);
+	return len;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+dasd_aq_timeouts_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+		       const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct dasd_device *device;
+	unsigned int val;
+
+	device = dasd_device_from_cdev(to_ccwdev(dev));
+	if (IS_ERR(device))
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	if ((kstrtouint(buf, 10, &val) != 0) ||
+	    val > DASD_RETRIES_MAX || val == 0) {
+		dasd_put_device(device);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	if (val)
+		device->aq_timeouts = val;
+
+	dasd_put_device(device);
+	return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(aq_timeouts, 0644, dasd_aq_timeouts_show,
+		   dasd_aq_timeouts_store);
+
 /*
  * expiration time for default requests
  */
@@ -2403,6 +2449,7 @@ static struct attribute * dasd_attrs[] = {
 	&dev_attr_ping.attr,
 	&dev_attr_aq_mask.attr,
 	&dev_attr_aq_requeue.attr,
+	&dev_attr_aq_timeouts.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c
index 1a69f97e88fbb..ade1369fe5ed3 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c
@@ -2109,6 +2109,7 @@ dasd_eckd_check_characteristics(struct dasd_device *device)
 	device->default_retries = DASD_RETRIES;
 	device->path_thrhld = DASD_ECKD_PATH_THRHLD;
 	device->path_interval = DASD_ECKD_PATH_INTERVAL;
+	device->aq_timeouts = DASD_RETRIES_MAX;
 
 	if (private->conf.gneq) {
 		value = 1;
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h
index c4633a4aeeb15..33f812f0e5150 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h
@@ -638,6 +638,7 @@ struct dasd_device {
 	struct kset *paths_info;
 	struct dasd_copy_relation *copy;
 	unsigned long aq_mask;
+	unsigned int aq_timeouts;
 };
 
 struct dasd_block {