diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index c62b966dfaba5054b19cd6893aadbaf067344a37..4a6789e4398b08456da65c142b7d22065c958863 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_insert_requests(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 		 * busy in case of 'none' scheduler, and this way may save
 		 * us one extra enqueue & dequeue to sw queue.
 		 */
-		if (!hctx->dispatch_busy && !e && !run_queue_async) {
+		if (!hctx->dispatch_busy && !run_queue_async) {
 			blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly(hctx, list);
 			if (list_empty(list))
 				goto out;