diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 8cd109972fa6..6782aa19130d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -1681,24 +1681,6 @@ static int insert_reserved_file_extent(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
  * before we start the transaction.  It limits the amount of btree
  * reads required while inside the transaction.
  */
-static noinline void reada_csum(struct btrfs_root *root,
-				struct btrfs_path *path,
-				struct btrfs_ordered_extent *ordered_extent)
-{
-	struct btrfs_ordered_sum *sum;
-	u64 bytenr;
-
-	sum = list_entry(ordered_extent->list.next, struct btrfs_ordered_sum,
-			 list);
-	bytenr = sum->sums[0].bytenr;
-
-	/*
-	 * we don't care about the results, the point of this search is
-	 * just to get the btree leaves into ram
-	 */
-	btrfs_lookup_csum(NULL, root->fs_info->csum_root, path, bytenr, 0);
-}
-
 /* as ordered data IO finishes, this gets called so we can finish
  * an ordered extent if the range of bytes in the file it covers are
  * fully written.
@@ -1709,7 +1691,6 @@ static int btrfs_finish_ordered_io(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end)
 	struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
 	struct btrfs_ordered_extent *ordered_extent = NULL;
 	struct extent_io_tree *io_tree = &BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree;
-	struct btrfs_path *path;
 	int compressed = 0;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -1717,32 +1698,9 @@ static int btrfs_finish_ordered_io(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end)
 	if (!ret)
 		return 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * before we join the transaction, try to do some of our IO.
-	 * This will limit the amount of IO that we have to do with
-	 * the transaction running.  We're unlikely to need to do any
-	 * IO if the file extents are new, the disk_i_size checks
-	 * covers the most common case.
-	 */
-	if (start < BTRFS_I(inode)->disk_i_size) {
-		path = btrfs_alloc_path();
-		if (path) {
-			ret = btrfs_lookup_file_extent(NULL, root, path,
-						       inode->i_ino,
-						       start, 0);
-			ordered_extent = btrfs_lookup_ordered_extent(inode,
-								     start);
-			if (!list_empty(&ordered_extent->list)) {
-				btrfs_release_path(root, path);
-				reada_csum(root, path, ordered_extent);
-			}
-			btrfs_free_path(path);
-		}
-	}
-
-	if (!ordered_extent)
-		ordered_extent = btrfs_lookup_ordered_extent(inode, start);
+	ordered_extent = btrfs_lookup_ordered_extent(inode, start);
 	BUG_ON(!ordered_extent);
+
 	if (test_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_NOCOW, &ordered_extent->flags)) {
 		BUG_ON(!list_empty(&ordered_extent->list));
 		ret = btrfs_ordered_update_i_size(inode, 0, ordered_extent);