On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:32:31PM +0000, 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. Thanks for the reference. Jens' suggestion looks the cleanest to me.