Can you move this to the beginning of your series, just after the other edits to blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests? > +static void blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(struct request_queue *q, > + struct elevator_queue *e, > + struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) No need to pass anything but the hctx here, the other two can be trivially derived from it. > +{ > + LIST_HEAD(rq_list); > + > + do { > + struct request *rq; > + > + rq = e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request(hctx); how about shortening this to: struct request *rq = e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request(hctx); > void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) > { > struct request_queue *q = hctx->queue; > @@ -136,16 +152,8 @@ void blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) > * on the dispatch list or we were able to dispatch from the > * dispatch list. > */ > - if (do_sched_dispatch && has_sched_dispatch) { > - do { > - struct request *rq; > - > - rq = e->type->ops.mq.dispatch_request(hctx); > - if (!rq) > - break; > - list_add(&rq->queuelist, &rq_list); > - } while (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list)); > - } > + if (do_sched_dispatch && has_sched_dispatch) > + blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(q, e, hctx); > } Please use this new helper to simplify the logic. E.g.: if (!list_empty(&rq_list)) { blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx); if (blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list) && has_sched_dispatch) blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(hctx); } else if (has_sched_dispatch) { blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched(hctx); } else { blk_mq_flush_busy_ctxs(hctx, &rq_list); blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(q, &rq_list); }