diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
index 928bfea5457b..3af6d8376a66 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
@@ -1469,16 +1469,7 @@ out_free:	dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 		 * has opened up.
 		 */
 		eth_txq_stop(q);
-
-		/* If we're using the SGE Doorbell Queue Timer facility, we
-		 * don't need to ask the Firmware to send us Egress Queue CIDX
-		 * Updates: the Hardware will do this automatically.  And
-		 * since we send the Ingress Queue CIDX Updates to the
-		 * corresponding Ethernet Response Queue, we'll get them very
-		 * quickly.
-		 */
-		if (!q->dbqt)
-			wr_mid |= FW_WR_EQUEQ_F | FW_WR_EQUIQ_F;
+		wr_mid |= FW_WR_EQUEQ_F | FW_WR_EQUIQ_F;
 	}
 
 	wr = (void *)&q->q.desc[q->q.pidx];
@@ -1792,16 +1783,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t cxgb4_vf_eth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		 * has opened up.
 		 */
 		eth_txq_stop(txq);
-
-		/* If we're using the SGE Doorbell Queue Timer facility, we
-		 * don't need to ask the Firmware to send us Egress Queue CIDX
-		 * Updates: the Hardware will do this automatically.  And
-		 * since we send the Ingress Queue CIDX Updates to the
-		 * corresponding Ethernet Response Queue, we'll get them very
-		 * quickly.
-		 */
-		if (!txq->dbqt)
-			wr_mid |= FW_WR_EQUEQ_F | FW_WR_EQUIQ_F;
+		wr_mid |= FW_WR_EQUEQ_F | FW_WR_EQUIQ_F;
 	}
 
 	/* Start filling in our Work Request.  Note that we do _not_ handle
@@ -2924,26 +2906,6 @@ static void t4_tx_completion_handler(struct sge_rspq *rspq,
 	}
 
 	txq = &s->ethtxq[pi->first_qset + rspq->idx];
-
-	/* We've got the Hardware Consumer Index Update in the Egress Update
-	 * message.  If we're using the SGE Doorbell Queue Timer mechanism,
-	 * these Egress Update messages will be our sole CIDX Updates we get
-	 * since we don't want to chew up PCIe bandwidth for both Ingress
-	 * Messages and Status Page writes.  However, The code which manages
-	 * reclaiming successfully DMA'ed TX Work Requests uses the CIDX value
-	 * stored in the Status Page at the end of the TX Queue.  It's easiest
-	 * to simply copy the CIDX Update value from the Egress Update message
-	 * to the Status Page.  Also note that no Endian issues need to be
-	 * considered here since both are Big Endian and we're just copying
-	 * bytes consistently ...
-	 */
-	if (txq->dbqt) {
-		struct cpl_sge_egr_update *egr;
-
-		egr = (struct cpl_sge_egr_update *)rsp;
-		WRITE_ONCE(txq->q.stat->cidx, egr->cidx);
-	}
-
 	t4_sge_eth_txq_egress_update(adapter, txq, -1);
 }