diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 2069b16b50eca..cc3876500c4b2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -459,34 +459,12 @@ void md_handle_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(md_handle_request);
 
-struct md_io {
-	struct mddev *mddev;
-	bio_end_io_t *orig_bi_end_io;
-	void *orig_bi_private;
-	unsigned long start_time;
-	struct hd_struct *part;
-};
-
-static void md_end_io(struct bio *bio)
-{
-	struct md_io *md_io = bio->bi_private;
-	struct mddev *mddev = md_io->mddev;
-
-	part_end_io_acct(md_io->part, bio, md_io->start_time);
-
-	bio->bi_end_io = md_io->orig_bi_end_io;
-	bio->bi_private = md_io->orig_bi_private;
-
-	mempool_free(md_io, &mddev->md_io_pool);
-
-	if (bio->bi_end_io)
-		bio->bi_end_io(bio);
-}
-
 static blk_qc_t md_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	const int rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
+	const int sgrp = op_stat_group(bio_op(bio));
 	struct mddev *mddev = bio->bi_disk->private_data;
+	unsigned int sectors;
 
 	if (mddev == NULL || mddev->pers == NULL) {
 		bio_io_error(bio);
@@ -507,26 +485,21 @@ static blk_qc_t md_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 		return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
 	}
 
-	if (bio->bi_end_io != md_end_io) {
-		struct md_io *md_io;
-
-		md_io = mempool_alloc(&mddev->md_io_pool, GFP_NOIO);
-		md_io->mddev = mddev;
-		md_io->orig_bi_end_io = bio->bi_end_io;
-		md_io->orig_bi_private = bio->bi_private;
-
-		bio->bi_end_io = md_end_io;
-		bio->bi_private = md_io;
-
-		md_io->start_time = part_start_io_acct(mddev->gendisk,
-						       &md_io->part, bio);
-	}
-
+	/*
+	 * save the sectors now since our bio can
+	 * go away inside make_request
+	 */
+	sectors = bio_sectors(bio);
 	/* bio could be mergeable after passing to underlayer */
 	bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_NOMERGE;
 
 	md_handle_request(mddev, bio);
 
+	part_stat_lock();
+	part_stat_inc(&mddev->gendisk->part0, ios[sgrp]);
+	part_stat_add(&mddev->gendisk->part0, sectors[sgrp], sectors);
+	part_stat_unlock();
+
 	return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
 }
 
@@ -5636,7 +5609,6 @@ static void md_free(struct kobject *ko)
 
 	bioset_exit(&mddev->bio_set);
 	bioset_exit(&mddev->sync_set);
-	mempool_exit(&mddev->md_io_pool);
 	kfree(mddev);
 }
 
@@ -5732,11 +5704,6 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
 		 */
 		mddev->hold_active = UNTIL_STOP;
 
-	error = mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&mddev->md_io_pool, BIO_POOL_SIZE,
-					  sizeof(struct md_io));
-	if (error)
-		goto abort;
-
 	error = -ENOMEM;
 	mddev->queue = blk_alloc_queue(NUMA_NO_NODE);
 	if (!mddev->queue)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 2175a5ac4f7c6..c94811cf26004 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -487,7 +487,6 @@ struct mddev {
 	struct bio_set			sync_set; /* for sync operations like
 						   * metadata and bitmap writes
 						   */
-	mempool_t			md_io_pool;
 
 	/* Generic flush handling.
 	 * The last to finish preflush schedules a worker to submit