On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 08:52:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > But I still think it may be better to move nvme_kill_queues() into > nvme_remove_dead_ctrl() as an improvement because during this small > window page cache can be used up by write application, and no writeback > can move on meantime. Yes, I agree that's a better placement for it. I was just concerned about the reasoning since it would also mean we're still stuck if an IO timeout occurs while calling del_gendisk. So I'm okay with the patch as-is, but I'll also look into my other concern.