While running the srp-test software I noticed that request processing stalls sporadically at the beginning of a test, namely when mkfs is run against a dm-mpath device. Every time when that happened the following command was sufficient to resume request processing: echo run >/sys/kernel/debug/block/dm-0/state This patch avoids that such request processing stalls occur. The test I ran is as follows: while srp-test/run_tests -d -r 30 -t 02-mq; do :; done Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-rq.c b/drivers/md/dm-rq.c index 6886bf160fb2..d19af1d21f4c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-rq.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-rq.c @@ -755,6 +755,7 @@ static int dm_mq_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, /* Undo dm_start_request() before requeuing */ rq_end_stats(md, rq); rq_completed(md, rq_data_dir(rq), false); + blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, 100/*ms*/); return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY; } -- 2.12.0