lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm   | 2 --
 lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm | 4 ++--

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
index 9f24534788a4e26d9e43ad54b4547c27e253c964..8f1494f65d33411a95c156ec9b5845dcf59834e6 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
@@ -557,8 +557,6 @@         confess("EPOLL_CTL_MOD $!");
     0;
 }
 
-sub watch_in1 ($) { watch($_[0], EPOLLIN | EPOLLONESHOT) }
-
 # return true if complete, false if incomplete (or failure)
 sub accept_tls_step ($) {
     my ($self) = @_;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
index 1153ef98779ff6390107afffd3174dacbe3da8f5..856b89598357239f7a115d3c296566a303969879 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ 		return quit($self, 400);
 	}
 	if ($r < 0) { # incomplete
 		$self->rbuf_idle($rbuf);
-		return $self->watch_in1;
+		return $self->requeue;
 	}
 	$$rbuf = substr($$rbuf, $r);
 	my $len = input_prepare($self, \%env);
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ 		# avoid recursion for pipelined requests
 		push @$pipelineq, $self;
 		$pipet ||= PublicInbox::EvCleanup::asap(*process_pipelineq);
 	} else { # wait for next request
-		$self->watch_in1;
+		$self->requeue;
 	}
 }