diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c b/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
index bacee09b7bfd..45b2a5ecd63a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
@@ -307,9 +307,6 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct btrfs_inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 	} else {
 		if (current->journal_info)
 			flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_LIMIT;
-
-		if (btrfs_transaction_in_commit(fs_info))
-			schedule_timeout(1);
 	}
 
 	num_bytes = ALIGN(num_bytes, fs_info->sectorsize);