diff --git a/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh b/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
index 7c703f1cd..10bfb8e85 100755
--- a/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
+++ b/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ if [[ $NET_TYPE == phy ]]; then
 	# run_test "nvmf_srq_overwhelm" test/nvmf/target/srq_overwhelm.sh $TEST_ARGS
 fi
 
+run_test "nvmf_queue_depth" test/nvmf/target/queue_depth.sh "${TEST_ARGS[@]}"
 run_test "nvmf_multipath" test/nvmf/target/multipath.sh "${TEST_ARGS[@]}"
 run_test "nvmf_zcopy" test/nvmf/target/zcopy.sh "${TEST_ARGS[@]}"
 
diff --git a/test/nvmf/target/queue_depth.sh b/test/nvmf/target/queue_depth.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3268fa18c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/nvmf/target/queue_depth.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Test for if we can allocate a request for the FABRICS_CONNECT when all requests objects are consumed by the queued I/O
+
+testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
+rootdir=$(readlink -f $testdir/../../..)
+source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
+source $rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh
+
+MALLOC_BDEV_SIZE=64
+MALLOC_BLOCK_SIZE=512
+
+rpc_py="$rootdir/scripts/rpc.py"
+
+bdevperf_rpc_sock=/var/tmp/bdevperf.sock
+
+nvmftestinit
+
+nvmfappstart -m 0x2
+
+$rpc_py nvmf_create_transport $NVMF_TRANSPORT_OPTS -u 8192
+$rpc_py bdev_malloc_create $MALLOC_BDEV_SIZE $MALLOC_BLOCK_SIZE -b Malloc0
+$rpc_py nvmf_create_subsystem nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 -a -s SPDK00000000000001
+$rpc_py nvmf_subsystem_add_ns nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 Malloc0
+$rpc_py nvmf_subsystem_add_listener nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 -t $TEST_TRANSPORT -a $NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP -s $NVMF_PORT
+
+$rootdir/test/bdev/bdevperf/bdevperf -z -r $bdevperf_rpc_sock -q 1024 -o 4096 -w verify -t 10 &
+bdevperf_pid=$!
+
+trap 'process_shm --id $NVMF_APP_SHM_ID; killprocess $bdevperf_pid; nvmftestfini; exit 1' SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+waitforlisten $bdevperf_pid $bdevperf_rpc_sock
+$rpc_py -s $bdevperf_rpc_sock bdev_nvme_attach_controller -b NVMe0 -t $TEST_TRANSPORT -a $NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP -s $NVMF_PORT -f ipv4 -n nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1
+$rootdir/test/bdev/bdevperf/bdevperf.py -s $bdevperf_rpc_sock perform_tests
+
+# if this test fails it means we didn't fail over to the second
+
+killprocess $bdevperf_pid
+
+trap - SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+nvmftestfini