diff --git a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
index 498021eb88fb..4ab72db3559e 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
@@ -119,20 +119,8 @@ void ext3_free_inode (handle_t *handle, struct inode * inode)
 	ino = inode->i_ino;
 	ext3_debug ("freeing inode %lu\n", ino);
 
-	/*
-	 * Note: we must free any quota before locking the superblock,
-	 * as writing the quota to disk may need the lock as well.
-	 */
-	dquot_initialize(inode);
-	ext3_xattr_delete_inode(handle, inode);
-	dquot_free_inode(inode);
-	dquot_drop(inode);
-
 	is_directory = S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode);
 
-	/* Do this BEFORE marking the inode not in use or returning an error */
-	clear_inode (inode);
-
 	es = EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es;
 	if (ino < EXT3_FIRST_INO(sb) || ino > le32_to_cpu(es->s_inodes_count)) {
 		ext3_error (sb, "ext3_free_inode",
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index b04d11936683..cc55cecf9fbc 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -190,18 +190,28 @@ static int truncate_restart_transaction(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 }
 
 /*
- * Called at the last iput() if i_nlink is zero.
+ * Called at inode eviction from icache
  */
-void ext3_delete_inode (struct inode * inode)
+void ext3_evict_inode (struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct ext3_block_alloc_info *rsv;
 	handle_t *handle;
+	int want_delete = 0;
 
-	if (!is_bad_inode(inode))
+	if (!inode->i_nlink && !is_bad_inode(inode)) {
 		dquot_initialize(inode);
+		want_delete = 1;
+	}
 
 	truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
 
-	if (is_bad_inode(inode))
+	ext3_discard_reservation(inode);
+	rsv = EXT3_I(inode)->i_block_alloc_info;
+	EXT3_I(inode)->i_block_alloc_info = NULL;
+	if (unlikely(rsv))
+		kfree(rsv);
+
+	if (!want_delete)
 		goto no_delete;
 
 	handle = start_transaction(inode);
@@ -238,15 +248,22 @@ void ext3_delete_inode (struct inode * inode)
 	 * having errors), but we can't free the inode if the mark_dirty
 	 * fails.
 	 */
-	if (ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode))
-		/* If that failed, just do the required in-core inode clear. */
-		clear_inode(inode);
-	else
+	if (ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode)) {
+		/* If that failed, just dquot_drop() and be done with that */
+		dquot_drop(inode);
+		end_writeback(inode);
+	} else {
+		ext3_xattr_delete_inode(handle, inode);
+		dquot_free_inode(inode);
+		dquot_drop(inode);
+		end_writeback(inode);
 		ext3_free_inode(handle, inode);
+	}
 	ext3_journal_stop(handle);
 	return;
 no_delete:
-	clear_inode(inode);	/* We must guarantee clearing of inode... */
+	end_writeback(inode);
+	dquot_drop(inode);
 }
 
 typedef struct {
@@ -2564,7 +2581,7 @@ out_stop:
 	 * If this was a simple ftruncate(), and the file will remain alive
 	 * then we need to clear up the orphan record which we created above.
 	 * However, if this was a real unlink then we were called by
-	 * ext3_delete_inode(), and we allow that function to clean up the
+	 * ext3_evict_inode(), and we allow that function to clean up the
 	 * orphan info for us.
 	 */
 	if (inode->i_nlink)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 6c953bb255e7..a951fd5c081c 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -527,17 +527,6 @@ static void destroy_inodecache(void)
 	kmem_cache_destroy(ext3_inode_cachep);
 }
 
-static void ext3_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	struct ext3_block_alloc_info *rsv = EXT3_I(inode)->i_block_alloc_info;
-
-	dquot_drop(inode);
-	ext3_discard_reservation(inode);
-	EXT3_I(inode)->i_block_alloc_info = NULL;
-	if (unlikely(rsv))
-		kfree(rsv);
-}
-
 static inline void ext3_show_quota_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct super_block *sb)
 {
 #if defined(CONFIG_QUOTA)
@@ -783,14 +772,13 @@ static const struct super_operations ext3_sops = {
 	.destroy_inode	= ext3_destroy_inode,
 	.write_inode	= ext3_write_inode,
 	.dirty_inode	= ext3_dirty_inode,
-	.delete_inode	= ext3_delete_inode,
+	.evict_inode	= ext3_evict_inode,
 	.put_super	= ext3_put_super,
 	.sync_fs	= ext3_sync_fs,
 	.freeze_fs	= ext3_freeze,
 	.unfreeze_fs	= ext3_unfreeze,
 	.statfs		= ext3_statfs,
 	.remount_fs	= ext3_remount,
-	.clear_inode	= ext3_clear_inode,
 	.show_options	= ext3_show_options,
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 	.quota_read	= ext3_quota_read,
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index 7fc62d4550b2..e7cb21766992 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 extern struct inode *ext3_iget(struct super_block *, unsigned long);
 extern int  ext3_write_inode (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *);
 extern int  ext3_setattr (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
-extern void ext3_delete_inode (struct inode *);
+extern void ext3_evict_inode (struct inode *);
 extern int  ext3_sync_inode (handle_t *, struct inode *);
 extern void ext3_discard_reservation (struct inode *);
 extern void ext3_dirty_inode(struct inode *);