sge->addr, sge->length, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 }
 
-/* Prepare the RPC-over-RDMA header SGE.
+/* Prepare an SGE for the RPC-over-RDMA transport header.
  */
 static bool
 rpcrdma_prepare_hdr_sge(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
        struct rpcrdma_regbuf *rb = req->rl_rdmabuf;
        struct ib_sge *sge = &req->rl_send_sge[0];
 
-       if (unlikely(!rpcrdma_regbuf_is_mapped(rb))) {
-               if (!__rpcrdma_dma_map_regbuf(ia, rb))
-                       goto out_regbuf;
-               sge->addr = rdmab_addr(rb);
-               sge->lkey = rdmab_lkey(rb);
-       }
+       if (!rpcrdma_dma_map_regbuf(ia, rb))
+               goto out_regbuf;
+       sge->addr = rdmab_addr(rb);
        sge->length = len;
+       sge->lkey = rdmab_lkey(rb);
 
        ib_dma_sync_single_for_device(rdmab_device(rb), sge->addr,
                                      sge->length, DMA_TO_DEVICE);