What follows are two patches. The first I've been carrying for a long time. The second is recent. We see over 2 million messages of sorts when a device(s) is unplugged right in the middle of heavy I/O. "rejecting I/O to device being removed" and "rejecting I/O to dead device"... These are printed so many times that they cause soft-lockup on all 4 CPUs in succession!... The following patches remedy this sad situation. Luben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html