Hi, Thomas mentioned: " That was the constraint of managed interrupts from the very beginning: The driver/subsystem has to quiesce the interrupt line and the associated queue _before_ it gets shutdown in CPU unplug and not fiddle with it until it's restarted by the core when the CPU is plugged in again. " But no drivers or blk-mq do that before one hctx becomes dead(all CPUs for one hctx are offline), and even it is worse, blk-mq stills tries to run hw queue after hctx is dead, see blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead(). This patchset tries to address the issue by two stages: 1) add one new cpuhp state of CPUHP_AP_BLK_MQ_ONLINE - mark the hctx as internal stopped, and drain all in-flight requests if the hctx is going to be dead. 2) re-submit IO in the state of CPUHP_BLK_MQ_DEAD after the hctx becomes dead - steal bios from the request, and resubmit them via generic_make_request(), then these IO will be mapped to other live hctx for dispatch Please comment & review, thanks! John, I don't add your tested-by tag since V3 have some changes, and I appreciate if you may run your test on V3. V4: - resubmit IOs in dispatch list in case that this hctx is dead V3: - re-organize patch 2 & 3 a bit for addressing Hannes's comment - fix patch 4 for avoiding potential deadlock, as found by Hannes V2: - patch4 & patch 5 in V1 have been merged to block tree, so remove them - address comments from John Garry and Minwoo Ming Lei (5): blk-mq: add new state of BLK_MQ_S_INTERNAL_STOPPED blk-mq: prepare for draining IO when hctx's all CPUs are offline blk-mq: stop to handle IO and drain IO before hctx becomes dead blk-mq: re-submit IO in case that hctx is dead blk-mq: handle requests dispatched from IO scheduler in case that hctx is dead block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 2 + block/blk-mq-tag.c | 2 +- block/blk-mq-tag.h | 2 + block/blk-mq.c | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- block/blk-mq.h | 3 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 2 +- include/linux/blk-mq.h | 5 ++ include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 + 9 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> -- 2.20.1