Hi, I got guilted into this by this Twitter exchange: https://twitter.com/axboe/status/1308778488011337728 Started with this patchset from June and revised it: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/list/?series=297693 (dropped MD patch while doing so_. Tested these changes with this test Jens provided: [mikes-test-job] filename=/dev/dm-0 rw=randread buffered=1 ioengine=io_uring iodepth=16 norandommap Jens, please feel free to pickup both patches, I don't have any conflicting DM changes for 5.10. Thanks, Mike Konstantin Khlebnikov (1): dm: add support for REQ_NOWAIT and enable it for linear target Mike Snitzer (1): block: add QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT block/blk-core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/md/dm-linear.c | 5 +++-- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm.c | 4 +++- include/linux/blkdev.h | 7 +++++-- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 6 ++++++ 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.15.0