diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 7ae7ea65da68..6da3f250804c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -282,10 +282,8 @@
 #define LONGS(x) (((x) + sizeof(unsigned long) - 1)/sizeof(unsigned long))
 
 /*
- * To allow fractional bits to be tracked, the following fields contain
- * this many fractional bits:
- *
- * entropy_count, trickle_thresh
+ * To allow fractional bits to be tracked, the entropy_count field is
+ * denominated in units of 1/8th bits.
  *
  * 2*(ENTROPY_SHIFT + log2(poolbits)) must <= 31, or the multiply in
  * credit_entropy_bits() needs to be 64 bits wide.
@@ -313,14 +311,6 @@ static int random_write_wakeup_thresh = 128;
  */
 static int random_min_urandom_seed = 60;
 
-/*
- * When the input pool goes over trickle_thresh, start dropping most
- * samples to avoid wasting CPU time and reduce lock contention.
- */
-static const int trickle_thresh = (INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 28) << ENTROPY_SHIFT;
-
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, trickle_count);
-
 /*
  * Originally, we used a primitive polynomial of degree .poolwords
  * over GF(2).  The taps for various sizes are defined below.  They
@@ -755,10 +745,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num)
 	long delta, delta2, delta3;
 
 	preempt_disable();
-	/* if over the trickle threshold, use only 1 in 4096 samples */
-	if (ENTROPY_BITS(&input_pool) > trickle_thresh &&
-	    ((__this_cpu_inc_return(trickle_count) - 1) & 0xfff))
-		goto out;
 
 	sample.jiffies = jiffies;
 	sample.cycles = random_get_entropy();
@@ -800,7 +786,6 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num)
 		credit_entropy_bits(&input_pool,
 				    min_t(int, fls(delta>>1), 11));
 	}
-out:
 	preempt_enable();
 }