On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 08:09:08AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:

If you leave the queue quiesced, pending IO will form requests that are
entered and waiting in the block layer. You can't freeze a queue with
entered requests.

We unquiesce first to flush any pending IO that had entered during the
prior reset. It's not the best way to handle this situation. It would be
smarter to steal the bio's from all the entered requests, then end those
requests, then resubmit the bios after the hw queues are initialized. We
don't do that because no one's really complained, probably because the
queue counts don't usually change after a reset.

FYI, Daniel Wagner had been thinking about doing this reinsert for
something (I forgot what exactly), and this kind of reinserting from
kblockd would also finally make REQ_NOWAIT practically useful for
file system initiated writes.  So I hope we can eventually get to it,
and it should help to sort out various problems.