diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index bc1b6a033700..7995666af959 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -878,8 +878,6 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
 	rwlock_t tree_mod_log_lock;
 	struct rb_root tree_mod_log;
 
-	atomic_t nr_async_submits;
-	atomic_t async_submit_draining;
 	atomic_t async_delalloc_pages;
 	atomic_t open_ioctl_trans;
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 2b18b0c379c1..f3e6e8fa19b0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -740,22 +740,9 @@ static void run_one_async_start(struct btrfs_work *work)
 
 static void run_one_async_done(struct btrfs_work *work)
 {
-	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info;
 	struct async_submit_bio *async;
-	int limit;
 
 	async = container_of(work, struct  async_submit_bio, work);
-	fs_info = async->fs_info;
-
-	limit = btrfs_async_submit_limit(fs_info);
-	limit = limit * 2 / 3;
-
-	/*
-	 * atomic_dec_return implies a barrier for waitqueue_active
-	 */
-	if (atomic_dec_return(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) < limit &&
-	    waitqueue_active(&fs_info->async_submit_wait))
-		wake_up(&fs_info->async_submit_wait);
 
 	/* If an error occurred we just want to clean up the bio and move on */
 	if (async->status) {
@@ -803,19 +790,10 @@ blk_status_t btrfs_wq_submit_bio(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, struct bio *bio,
 
 	async->status = 0;
 
-	atomic_inc(&fs_info->nr_async_submits);
-
 	if (op_is_sync(bio->bi_opf))
 		btrfs_set_work_high_priority(&async->work);
 
 	btrfs_queue_work(fs_info->workers, &async->work);
-
-	while (atomic_read(&fs_info->async_submit_draining) &&
-	      atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits)) {
-		wait_event(fs_info->async_submit_wait,
-			   (atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) == 0));
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -2515,9 +2493,7 @@ int open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 	btrfs_init_block_rsv(&fs_info->empty_block_rsv, BTRFS_BLOCK_RSV_EMPTY);
 	btrfs_init_block_rsv(&fs_info->delayed_block_rsv,
 			     BTRFS_BLOCK_RSV_DELOPS);
-	atomic_set(&fs_info->nr_async_submits, 0);
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages, 0);
-	atomic_set(&fs_info->async_submit_draining, 0);
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->defrag_running, 0);
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->qgroup_op_seq, 0);
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->reada_works_cnt, 0);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index aaf36f78fa07..4ddb299af472 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -1222,13 +1222,6 @@ static int cow_file_range_async(struct inode *inode, struct page *locked_page,
 
 		btrfs_queue_work(fs_info->delalloc_workers, &async_cow->work);
 
-		while (atomic_read(&fs_info->async_submit_draining) &&
-		       atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages)) {
-			wait_event(fs_info->async_submit_wait,
-				   (atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages) ==
-				    0));
-		}
-
 		*nr_written += nr_pages;
 		start = cur_end + 1;
 	}
@@ -10332,19 +10325,6 @@ int btrfs_start_delalloc_inodes(struct btrfs_root *root, int delay_iput)
 	ret = __start_delalloc_inodes(root, delay_iput, -1);
 	if (ret > 0)
 		ret = 0;
-	/*
-	 * the filemap_flush will queue IO into the worker threads, but
-	 * we have to make sure the IO is actually started and that
-	 * ordered extents get created before we return
-	 */
-	atomic_inc(&fs_info->async_submit_draining);
-	while (atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) ||
-	       atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages)) {
-		wait_event(fs_info->async_submit_wait,
-			   (atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) == 0 &&
-			    atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages) == 0));
-	}
-	atomic_dec(&fs_info->async_submit_draining);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -10386,14 +10366,6 @@ int btrfs_start_delalloc_roots(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, int delay_iput,
 	spin_unlock(&fs_info->delalloc_root_lock);
 
 	ret = 0;
-	atomic_inc(&fs_info->async_submit_draining);
-	while (atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) ||
-	      atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages)) {
-		wait_event(fs_info->async_submit_wait,
-		   (atomic_read(&fs_info->nr_async_submits) == 0 &&
-		    atomic_read(&fs_info->async_delalloc_pages) == 0));
-	}
-	atomic_dec(&fs_info->async_submit_draining);
 out:
 	if (!list_empty_careful(&splice)) {
 		spin_lock(&fs_info->delalloc_root_lock);