On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:59:10PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > If there are two requests or more timed out, the dispatch queue > is put into stopped state and never be recoverd, and there > is no such problem in non-mq mode. > > This patch trys to recover the stopped queue when the queue > becomes unbusy, then the following retries can move on. > > Basically this patch maintains same behavior for this situation > with non-mq mode. This looks somewhat similar to the issues that Doug reported, and I remember when he was last running into boot problems it was timeout related, too. As far as the implementation is concerned I think the correct fix is to clear the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED queue flags in blk_mq_kick_requeue_list. -- 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