diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index a19cdf159b7536a6a941effa75da65869da7b076..d2790e5b06d1487fde47730e3bf7a6a7b712da1a 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ void blk_mq_sched_restart(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 		return;
 	clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART, &hctx->state);
 
+	/*
+	 * Order clearing SCHED_RESTART and list_empty_careful(&hctx->dispatch)
+	 * in blk_mq_run_hw_queue(). Its pair is the barrier in
+	 * blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). So dispatch code won't see SCHED_RESTART,
+	 * meantime new request added to hctx->dispatch is missed to check in
+	 * blk_mq_run_hw_queue().
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
+
 	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, true);
 }
 
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 35f8d06924421a25dbacb9958dfb0c4e56460133..a80f4986e59492a4e5111b34468c61ce148eae14 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -1437,6 +1437,15 @@ bool blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct list_head *list,
 		list_splice_tail_init(list, &hctx->dispatch);
 		spin_unlock(&hctx->lock);
 
+		/*
+		 * Order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking
+		 * SCHED_RESTART flag. The pair of this smp_mb() is the one
+		 * in blk_mq_sched_restart(). Avoid restart code path to
+		 * miss the new added requests to hctx->dispatch, meantime
+		 * SCHED_RESTART is observed here.
+		 */
+		smp_mb();
+
 		/*
 		 * If SCHED_RESTART was set by the caller of this function and
 		 * it is no longer set that means that it was cleared by another