diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index a52d92e182eea431458e6398a21cf5b0164b923b..5ddfb93ed491083857f7bcd7b507954c9a39c292 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -6698,8 +6698,15 @@ static int __ixgbe_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool *enable_wake)
 	rtnl_lock();
 	netif_device_detach(netdev);
 
-	if (netif_running(netdev))
+	if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+		/* Suspend takes a long time, device_shutdown may be
+		 * parallelized this function, so drop lock for the
+		 * duration of this call.
+		 */
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		ixgbe_close_suspend(adapter);
+		rtnl_lock();
+	}
 
 	ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);
 	rtnl_unlock();