diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
index 4de03da9a624b8596008644ac1d3934b8957722e..9ebb344e25850ab51cc386efbf5c2e76793ccdac 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ static const char *const cmd_flag_name[] = {
 
 #define RQF_NAME(name) [ilog2((__force u32)RQF_##name)] = #name
 static const char *const rqf_name[] = {
-	RQF_NAME(SORTED),
 	RQF_NAME(STARTED),
 	RQF_NAME(SOFTBARRIER),
 	RQF_NAME(FLUSH_SEQ),
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index ddb65e9e6fd9d814ec828ef5af569d368b13087d..e1e997af89a0d6f664d103b275a752e85fd7e3a2 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -385,7 +385,6 @@ bool blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge);
 
 static bool blk_mq_sched_bypass_insert(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
-				       bool has_sched,
 				       struct request *rq)
 {
 	/*
@@ -402,9 +401,6 @@ static bool blk_mq_sched_bypass_insert(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 	if ((rq->rq_flags & RQF_FLUSH_SEQ) || blk_rq_is_passthrough(rq))
 		return true;
 
-	if (has_sched)
-		rq->rq_flags |= RQF_SORTED;
-
 	return false;
 }
 
@@ -418,7 +414,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_insert_request(struct request *rq, bool at_head,
 
 	WARN_ON(e && (rq->tag != BLK_MQ_NO_TAG));
 
-	if (blk_mq_sched_bypass_insert(hctx, !!e, rq)) {
+	if (blk_mq_sched_bypass_insert(hctx, rq)) {
 		/*
 		 * Firstly normal IO request is inserted to scheduler queue or
 		 * sw queue, meantime we add flush request to dispatch queue(
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index c032cfe133c792b7b05a8aa31f47b31f6d286356..bc6bc8383b434ef501146a7bd5028408b94c065a 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ typedef void (rq_end_io_fn)(struct request *, blk_status_t);
  * request flags */
 typedef __u32 __bitwise req_flags_t;
 
-/* elevator knows about this request */
-#define RQF_SORTED		((__force req_flags_t)(1 << 0))
 /* drive already may have started this one */
 #define RQF_STARTED		((__force req_flags_t)(1 << 1))
 /* may not be passed by ioscheduler */