Jens, A couple of patches to: (1) fix recent mq-deadline improvement. Feeel free to squash that one into commit 015d02f48537 ("block: mq-deadline: Do not break sequential write streams to zoned HDDs") in your for-6.2/block branch. (2) Fix REQ_SYNC use for async direct IOs to block device files. Damien Le Moal (2): block: mq-deadline: Rename deadline_is_seq_writes() block: fops: Do not set REQ_SYNC for async IOs block/fops.c | 7 ++++++- block/mq-deadline.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.38.1