diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
index 002a46d1faa1..11d5aa123f17 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
@@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ struct svcxprt_rdma {
 /* The default ORD value is based on two outstanding full-size writes with a
  * page size of 4k, or 32k * 2 ops / 4k = 16 outstanding RDMA_READ.  */
 #define RPCRDMA_ORD             (64/4)
-#define RPCRDMA_SQ_DEPTH_MULT   8
 #define RPCRDMA_MAX_REQUESTS    32
 #define RPCRDMA_MAX_REQ_SIZE    4096
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma.c
index c846ca9f1eba..912444174647 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma.c
@@ -247,8 +247,6 @@ int svc_rdma_init(void)
 	dprintk("SVCRDMA Module Init, register RPC RDMA transport\n");
 	dprintk("\tsvcrdma_ord      : %d\n", svcrdma_ord);
 	dprintk("\tmax_requests     : %u\n", svcrdma_max_requests);
-	dprintk("\tsq_depth         : %u\n",
-		svcrdma_max_requests * RPCRDMA_SQ_DEPTH_MULT);
 	dprintk("\tmax_bc_requests  : %u\n", svcrdma_max_bc_requests);
 	dprintk("\tmax_inline       : %d\n", svcrdma_max_req_size);
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
index fc8f14c7bfec..e1097cc6d1eb 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static struct svc_xprt *svc_rdma_accept(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 					    svcrdma_max_bc_requests);
 	newxprt->sc_rq_depth = newxprt->sc_max_requests +
 			       newxprt->sc_max_bc_requests;
-	newxprt->sc_sq_depth = RPCRDMA_SQ_DEPTH_MULT * newxprt->sc_rq_depth;
+	newxprt->sc_sq_depth = newxprt->sc_rq_depth;
 	atomic_set(&newxprt->sc_sq_avail, newxprt->sc_sq_depth);
 
 	if (!svc_rdma_prealloc_ctxts(newxprt))