It checks if plug->cached_rq is empty before merging bio. But the merge action doesn't have relationship with plug->cached_rq, it trys to merge bio with requests within plug->mq_list. Now it checks if ->cached_rq is empty before merging bio. If it's empty, it will miss the merge chances. So move the merge function before checking ->cached_rq. Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index 9c8dc70020bc..63bd7a34fe6f 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -2894,15 +2894,16 @@ static inline struct request *blk_mq_get_cached_request(struct request_queue *q, if (!plug) return NULL; - rq = rq_list_peek(&plug->cached_rq); - if (!rq || rq->q != q) - return NULL; if (blk_mq_attempt_bio_merge(q, *bio, nsegs)) { *bio = NULL; return NULL; } + rq = rq_list_peek(&plug->cached_rq); + if (!rq || rq->q != q) + return NULL; + type = blk_mq_get_hctx_type((*bio)->bi_opf); hctx_type = rq->mq_hctx->type; if (type != hctx_type && -- 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)