diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 221d1b7d10d6..4787d5b74aa3 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ __blk_mq_alloc_requests_batch(struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data,
 	for (i = 0; tag_mask; i++) {
 		if (!(tag_mask & (1UL << i)))
 			continue;
-		prefetch(tags->static_rqs[tag]);
 		tag = tag_offset + i;
+		prefetch(tags->static_rqs[tag]);
 		tag_mask &= ~(1UL << i);
 		rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tags, tag, alloc_time_ns);
 		rq_list_add(data->cached_rq, rq);