Hello Jens, The six patches in this patch series fix the queue lockup I reported recently on the linux-block mailing list. Please consider these patches for inclusion in the upstream kernel. Thanks, Bart. Changes between v3 and v4: - Addressed the review comments on version three of this series about the patch that makes it safe to use RCU to iterate over .tag_list and also about the runtime performance and use of short variable names in patch 2/5. - Clarified the description of the patch that fixes the scsi-mq stall. - Added a patch to fix a dm-mq queue stall. Changes between v2 and v3: - Removed the blk_mq_ops.restart_hctx function pointer again. - Modified blk_mq_sched_restart_queues() such that only a single hardware queue is restarted instead of multiple if hardware queues are shared. - Introduced a new function in the block layer, namely blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(). Changes between v1 and v2: - Reworked scsi_restart_queues() such that it no longer takes the SCSI host lock. - Added two patches - one for exporting blk_mq_sched_restart_hctx() and another one to make iterating with RCU over blk_mq_tag_set.tag_list safe. Bart Van Assche (6): blk-mq: Make it safe to use RCU to iterate over blk_mq_tag_set.tag_list blk-mq: Restart a single queue if tag sets are shared blk-mq: Clarify comments in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() blk-mq: Introduce blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() scsi: Avoid that SCSI queues get stuck dm rq: Avoid that request processing stalls sporadically block/blk-mq-sched.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- block/blk-mq-sched.h | 16 +---------- block/blk-mq.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 6 ++-- include/linux/blk-mq.h | 2 ++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 - 7 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- 2.12.0