diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index b8ad17e730b6..9a72c05b6177 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -1025,7 +1025,6 @@ xfs_log_inode(
 	 */
 	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip);
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
-	xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);
 	error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, 0);
 	xfs_ilock_demote(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 
@@ -1048,20 +1047,11 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
 
 	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
 		/*
-		 * Make sure the inode has hit stable storage.  By using the
-		 * log and the fsync transactions we reduce the IOs we have
-		 * to do here from two (log and inode) to just the log.
-		 *
-		 * Note: We still need to do a delwri write of the inode after
-		 * this to flush it to the backing buffer so that bulkstat
-		 * works properly if this is the first time the inode has been
-		 * written.  Because we hold the ilock atomically over the
-		 * transaction commit and the inode flush we are guaranteed
-		 * that the inode is not pinned when it returns. If the flush
-		 * lock is already held, then the inode has already been
-		 * flushed once and we don't need to flush it again.  Hence
-		 * the code will only flush the inode if it isn't already
-		 * being flushed.
+		 * Make sure the inode has made it it into the log.  Instead
+		 * of forcing it all the way to stable storage using a
+		 * synchronous transaction we let the log force inside the
+		 * ->sync_fs call do that for thus, which reduces the number
+		 * of synchronous log foces dramatically.
 		 */
 		xfs_ioend_wait(ip);
 		xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
@@ -1075,27 +1065,29 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
 		 * We make this non-blocking if the inode is contended, return
 		 * EAGAIN to indicate to the caller that they did not succeed.
 		 * This prevents the flush path from blocking on inodes inside
-		 * another operation right now, they get caught later by xfs_sync.
+		 * another operation right now, they get caught later by
+		 * xfs_sync.
 		 */
 		if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED))
 			goto out;
-	}
 
-	if (xfs_ipincount(ip) || !xfs_iflock_nowait(ip))
-		goto out_unlock;
+		if (xfs_ipincount(ip) || !xfs_iflock_nowait(ip))
+			goto out_unlock;
 
-	/*
-	 * Now we have the flush lock and the inode is not pinned, we can check
-	 * if the inode is really clean as we know that there are no pending
-	 * transaction completions, it is not waiting on the delayed write
-	 * queue and there is no IO in progress.
-	 */
-	if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
-		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
-		error = 0;
-		goto out_unlock;
+		/*
+		 * Now we have the flush lock and the inode is not pinned, we
+		 * can check if the inode is really clean as we know that
+		 * there are no pending transaction completions, it is not
+		 * waiting on the delayed write queue and there is no IO in
+		 * progress.
+		 */
+		if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
+			xfs_ifunlock(ip);
+			error = 0;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
+		error = xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
 	}
-	error = xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
 
  out_unlock:
 	xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);