diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 0525b191843e..709026698d91 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -5147,7 +5147,6 @@ static int btrfs_log_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			   const loff_t end,
 			   struct btrfs_log_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = root->fs_info;
 	struct btrfs_path *path;
 	struct btrfs_path *dst_path;
 	struct btrfs_key min_key;
@@ -5190,15 +5189,17 @@ static int btrfs_log_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	max_key.offset = (u64)-1;
 
 	/*
-	 * Only run delayed items if we are a dir or a new file.
+	 * Only run delayed items if we are a directory. We want to make sure
+	 * all directory indexes hit the fs/subvolume tree so we can find them
+	 * and figure out which index ranges have to be logged.
+	 *
 	 * Otherwise commit the delayed inode only if the full sync flag is set,
 	 * as we want to make sure an up to date version is in the subvolume
 	 * tree so copy_inode_items_to_log() / copy_items() can find it and copy
 	 * it to the log tree. For a non full sync, we always log the inode item
 	 * based on the in-memory struct btrfs_inode which is always up to date.
 	 */
-	if (S_ISDIR(inode->vfs_inode.i_mode) ||
-	    inode->generation > fs_info->last_trans_committed)
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->vfs_inode.i_mode))
 		ret = btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items(trans, inode);
 	else if (test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC, &inode->runtime_flags))
 		ret = btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode(inode);