diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 101041d4d2b2..786899da3eb9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -3234,7 +3234,8 @@ int btrfs_check_data_free_space(struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode,
 				u64 bytes)
 {
 	struct btrfs_space_info *data_sinfo;
-	int ret = 0, committed = 0;
+	u64 used;
+	int ret = 0, committed = 0, flushed = 0;
 
 	/* make sure bytes are sectorsize aligned */
 	bytes = (bytes + root->sectorsize - 1) & ~((u64)root->sectorsize - 1);
@@ -3246,12 +3247,21 @@ int btrfs_check_data_free_space(struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *inode,
 again:
 	/* make sure we have enough space to handle the data first */
 	spin_lock(&data_sinfo->lock);
-	if (data_sinfo->total_bytes - data_sinfo->bytes_used -
-	    data_sinfo->bytes_delalloc - data_sinfo->bytes_reserved -
-	    data_sinfo->bytes_pinned - data_sinfo->bytes_readonly -
-	    data_sinfo->bytes_may_use - data_sinfo->bytes_super < bytes) {
+	used = data_sinfo->bytes_used + data_sinfo->bytes_delalloc +
+		data_sinfo->bytes_reserved + data_sinfo->bytes_pinned +
+		data_sinfo->bytes_readonly + data_sinfo->bytes_may_use +
+		data_sinfo->bytes_super;
+
+	if (used + bytes > data_sinfo->total_bytes) {
 		struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 
+		if (!flushed) {
+			spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+			flush_delalloc(root, data_sinfo);
+			flushed = 1;
+			goto again;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * if we don't have enough free bytes in this space then we need
 		 * to alloc a new chunk.