diff --git a/src/mito2/src/memtable/time_series.rs b/src/mito2/src/memtable/time_series.rs
index 0ffab35e50..82758a542b 100644
--- a/src/mito2/src/memtable/time_series.rs
+++ b/src/mito2/src/memtable/time_series.rs
@@ -666,17 +666,15 @@ impl Series {
 
     /// Freezes active part to frozen part and compact frozen part to reduce memory fragmentation.
     /// Returns the frozen and compacted values.
-    fn compact(&mut self, region_metadata: &RegionMetadataRef) -> Result<Values> {
+    fn compact(&mut self, region_metadata: &RegionMetadataRef) -> Result<&Values> {
         self.freeze(region_metadata);
 
-        let mut frozen = self.frozen.clone();
+        let frozen = &self.frozen;
 
         // Each series must contain at least one row
         debug_assert!(!frozen.is_empty());
 
-        let values = if frozen.len() == 1 {
-            frozen.pop().unwrap()
-        } else {
+        if frozen.len() > 1 {
             // TODO(hl): We should keep track of min/max timestamps for each values and avoid
             // cloning and sorting when values do not overlap with each other.
 
@@ -700,10 +698,9 @@ impl Series {
 
             debug_assert_eq!(concatenated.len(), column_size);
             let values = Values::from_columns(&concatenated)?;
-            self.frozen = vec![values.clone()];
-            values
+            self.frozen = vec![values];
         };
-        Ok(values)
+        Ok(&self.frozen[0])
     }
 }
 
@@ -1008,7 +1005,7 @@ mod tests {
         vec![ValueRef::Int64(v0), ValueRef::Float64(OrderedFloat(v1))].into_iter()
     }
 
-    fn check_values(values: Values, expect: &[(i64, u64, u8, i64, f64)]) {
+    fn check_values(values: &Values, expect: &[(i64, u64, u8, i64, f64)]) {
         let ts = values
             .timestamp
             .as_any()
diff --git a/src/mito2/src/read.rs b/src/mito2/src/read.rs
index 09c59693cc..c9500b51f6 100644
--- a/src/mito2/src/read.rs
+++ b/src/mito2/src/read.rs
@@ -382,8 +382,13 @@ impl Batch {
         ];
         let rows = converter.convert_columns(&columns).unwrap();
         let mut to_sort: Vec<_> = rows.iter().enumerate().collect();
-        to_sort.sort_unstable_by(|left, right| left.1.cmp(&right.1));
 
+        let was_sorted = to_sort.is_sorted_by_key(|x| x.1);
+        if !was_sorted {
+            to_sort.sort_unstable_by_key(|x| x.1);
+        }
+
+        let num_rows = to_sort.len();
         if dedup {
             // Dedup by timestamps.
             to_sort.dedup_by(|left, right| {
@@ -394,7 +399,11 @@ impl Batch {
                 left_key[..TIMESTAMP_KEY_LEN] == right_key[..TIMESTAMP_KEY_LEN]
             });
         }
+        let no_dedup = to_sort.len() == num_rows;
 
+        if was_sorted && no_dedup {
+            return Ok(());
+        }
         let indices = UInt32Vector::from_iter_values(to_sort.iter().map(|v| v.0 as u32));
         self.take_in_place(&indices)
     }