min_t(u64, fs_devices->num_devices,
                           fs_info->thread_pool_size),
                           &fs_info->generic_worker);
-       btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->enospc_workers, "enospc",
-                          fs_info->thread_pool_size,
-                          &fs_info->generic_worker);
 
        /* a higher idle thresh on the submit workers makes it much more
         * likely that bios will be send down in a sane order to the
        btrfs_start_workers(&fs_info->endio_meta_workers, 1);
        btrfs_start_workers(&fs_info->endio_meta_write_workers, 1);
        btrfs_start_workers(&fs_info->endio_write_workers, 1);
-       btrfs_start_workers(&fs_info->enospc_workers, 1);
 
        fs_info->bdi.ra_pages *= btrfs_super_num_devices(disk_super);
        fs_info->bdi.ra_pages = max(fs_info->bdi.ra_pages,
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->endio_meta_write_workers);
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->endio_write_workers);
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->submit_workers);
-       btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->enospc_workers);
 fail_iput:
        invalidate_inode_pages2(fs_info->btree_inode->i_mapping);
        iput(fs_info->btree_inode);
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->endio_meta_write_workers);
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->endio_write_workers);
        btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->submit_workers);
-       btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->enospc_workers);
 
        btrfs_close_devices(fs_info->fs_devices);
        btrfs_mapping_tree_free(&fs_info->mapping_tree);
 
 static int maybe_allocate_chunk(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                                struct btrfs_root *root,
                                struct btrfs_space_info *sinfo, u64 num_bytes);
+static int shrink_delalloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+                          struct btrfs_root *root,
+                          struct btrfs_space_info *sinfo, u64 to_reclaim);
 
 static noinline int
 block_group_cache_done(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *cache)
        for (i = 0; i < BTRFS_NR_RAID_TYPES; i++)
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&found->block_groups[i]);
        init_rwsem(&found->groups_sem);
-       init_waitqueue_head(&found->flush_wait);
        spin_lock_init(&found->lock);
        found->flags = flags & (BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DATA |
                                BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_SYSTEM |
                meta_sinfo->force_delalloc = 0;
 }
 
-struct async_flush {
-       struct btrfs_root *root;
-       struct btrfs_space_info *info;
-       struct btrfs_work work;
-};
-
-static noinline void flush_delalloc_async(struct btrfs_work *work)
-{
-       struct async_flush *async;
-       struct btrfs_root *root;
-       struct btrfs_space_info *info;
-
-       async = container_of(work, struct async_flush, work);
-       root = async->root;
-       info = async->info;
-
-       btrfs_start_delalloc_inodes(root, 0);
-       wake_up(&info->flush_wait);
-       btrfs_wait_ordered_extents(root, 0, 0);
-
-       spin_lock(&info->lock);
-       info->flushing = 0;
-       spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-       wake_up(&info->flush_wait);
-
-       kfree(async);
-}
-
-static void wait_on_flush(struct btrfs_space_info *info)
-{
-       DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
-       u64 used;
-
-       while (1) {
-               prepare_to_wait(&info->flush_wait, &wait,
-                               TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-               spin_lock(&info->lock);
-               if (!info->flushing) {
-                       spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-                       break;
-               }
-
-               used = info->bytes_used + info->bytes_reserved +
-                       info->bytes_pinned + info->bytes_readonly +
-                       info->bytes_super + info->bytes_root +
-                       info->bytes_may_use + info->bytes_delalloc;
-               if (used < info->total_bytes) {
-                       spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-                       break;
-               }
-               spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-               schedule();
-       }
-       finish_wait(&info->flush_wait, &wait);
-}
-
-static void flush_delalloc(struct btrfs_root *root,
-                                struct btrfs_space_info *info)
-{
-       struct async_flush *async;
-       bool wait = false;
-
-       spin_lock(&info->lock);
-
-       if (!info->flushing)
-               info->flushing = 1;
-       else
-               wait = true;
-
-       spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-
-       if (wait) {
-               wait_on_flush(info);
-               return;
-       }
-
-       async = kzalloc(sizeof(*async), GFP_NOFS);
-       if (!async)
-               goto flush;
-
-       async->root = root;
-       async->info = info;
-       async->work.func = flush_delalloc_async;
-
-       btrfs_queue_worker(&root->fs_info->enospc_workers,
-                          &async->work);
-       wait_on_flush(info);
-       return;
-
-flush:
-       btrfs_start_delalloc_inodes(root, 0);
-       btrfs_wait_ordered_extents(root, 0, 0);
-
-       spin_lock(&info->lock);
-       info->flushing = 0;
-       spin_unlock(&info->lock);
-       wake_up(&info->flush_wait);
-}
-
 /*
  * Reserve metadata space for delalloc.
  */
                        filemap_flush(inode->i_mapping);
                        goto again;
                } else if (flushed == 3) {
-                       flush_delalloc(root, meta_sinfo);
+                       shrink_delalloc(NULL, root, meta_sinfo, num_bytes);
                        goto again;
                }
                spin_lock(&meta_sinfo->lock);
                }
 
                if (retries == 2) {
-                       flush_delalloc(root, meta_sinfo);
+                       shrink_delalloc(NULL, root, meta_sinfo, num_bytes);
                        goto again;
                }
                spin_lock(&meta_sinfo->lock);
 {
        struct btrfs_space_info *data_sinfo;
        u64 used;
-       int ret = 0, committed = 0, flushed = 0;
+       int ret = 0, committed = 0;
 
        /* make sure bytes are sectorsize aligned */
        bytes = (bytes + root->sectorsize - 1) & ~((u64)root->sectorsize - 1);
        if (used + bytes > data_sinfo->total_bytes) {
                struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 
-               if (!flushed) {
-                       spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
-                       flush_delalloc(root, data_sinfo);
-                       flushed = 1;
-                       goto again;
-               }
-
                /*
                 * if we don't have enough free bytes in this space then we need
                 * to alloc a new chunk.
        return ret == 1 ? 1 : 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * shrink metadata reservation for delalloc
+ */
+static int shrink_delalloc(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+                          struct btrfs_root *root,
+                          struct btrfs_space_info *sinfo, u64 to_reclaim)
+{
+       u64 reserved;
+       u64 max_reclaim;
+       u64 reclaimed = 0;
+       int pause = 1;
+       int ret;
+
+       spin_lock(&sinfo->lock);
+       reserved = sinfo->bytes_delalloc;
+       spin_unlock(&sinfo->lock);
+
+       if (reserved == 0)
+               return 0;
+
+       max_reclaim = min(reserved, to_reclaim);
+
+       while (1) {
+               ret = btrfs_start_one_delalloc_inode(root, trans ? 1 : 0);
+               if (!ret) {
+                       __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+                       schedule_timeout(pause);
+                       pause <<= 1;
+                       if (pause > HZ / 10)
+                               pause = HZ / 10;
+               } else {
+                       pause = 1;
+               }
+
+               spin_lock(&sinfo->lock);
+               if (reserved > sinfo->bytes_delalloc)
+                       reclaimed = reserved - sinfo->bytes_delalloc;
+               reserved = sinfo->bytes_delalloc;
+               spin_unlock(&sinfo->lock);
+
+               if (reserved == 0 || reclaimed >= max_reclaim)
+                       break;
+
+               if (trans && trans->transaction->blocked)
+                       return -EAGAIN;
+       }
+       return reclaimed >= to_reclaim;
+}
+
 static int update_block_group(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                              struct btrfs_root *root,
                              u64 bytenr, u64 num_bytes, int alloc,