On 04/26/2017 01:32 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 14:30 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote: >> Jens, could you ack that dropping the lock is okay? > > Hello Omar, > > If you have a look at the block layer history then you will see that the > current approach for shutting down block layer queues is an approach that > I had introduced myself. See also commits 3f3299d5c026, 807592a4fafb and > c246e80d8673. Bart, did you see my reply on the topic? -- Jens Axboe