On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 08:53:46PM +0200, Pankaj Raghav wrote: > Modify blk_mq_plug() to allow plugging only for read operations in zoned > block devices as there are alternative IO paths in the linux block > layer which can end up doing a write via driver private requests in > sequential write zones. We should be able to plug for all operations that are not REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND just fine. I also really can't parse your commit log at all, what alternative paths are you talking about here?