On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 03:50:40PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 06/16/2017 10:15 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Merge three functions only tail-called by blk_mq_free_request into > > blk_mq_free_request. > > This doesn't compile, as blk_mq_merge_queue_io() has a call to > __blk_mq_finish_request(). Hmm. The tree I've based my work on certainly doesn't. But it doesn't even have blk_mq_merge_queue_io at all either, as does your for-4.13/block block tree. What am I missing?