According to Admin Magazine, request merging is mostly for rotation disks in order to reduce seek times by grouping together requests. This reduces the frequency of disk spin-ups. However, flash storage does not suffer from long disk seeks. Disable request merging in order to reduce overhead and improve throughput. Signed-off-by: Tyler Nijmeh <tylernij@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oktapra Amtono <oktapra.amtono@gmail.com>