diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c b/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
index 08cfef49f88b..c13d8609cc99 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c
@@ -13,126 +13,15 @@ int btrfs_alloc_data_chunk_ondemand(struct btrfs_inode *inode, u64 bytes)
 {
 	struct btrfs_root *root = inode->root;
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = root->fs_info;
-	struct btrfs_space_info *data_sinfo = fs_info->data_sinfo;
-	u64 used;
-	int ret = 0;
-	int need_commit = 2;
-	int have_pinned_space;
+	enum btrfs_reserve_flush_enum flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_DATA;
 
 	/* Make sure bytes are sectorsize aligned */
 	bytes = ALIGN(bytes, fs_info->sectorsize);
 
-	if (btrfs_is_free_space_inode(inode)) {
-		need_commit = 0;
-		ASSERT(current->journal_info);
-	}
-
-again:
-	/* Make sure we have enough space to handle the data first */
-	spin_lock(&data_sinfo->lock);
-	used = btrfs_space_info_used(data_sinfo, true);
-
-	if (used + bytes > data_sinfo->total_bytes) {
-		struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans;
-
-		/*
-		 * If we don't have enough free bytes in this space then we need
-		 * to alloc a new chunk.
-		 */
-		if (!data_sinfo->full) {
-			u64 alloc_target;
-
-			data_sinfo->force_alloc = CHUNK_ALLOC_FORCE;
-			spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
-
-			alloc_target = btrfs_data_alloc_profile(fs_info);
-			/*
-			 * It is ugly that we don't call nolock join
-			 * transaction for the free space inode case here.
-			 * But it is safe because we only do the data space
-			 * reservation for the free space cache in the
-			 * transaction context, the common join transaction
-			 * just increase the counter of the current transaction
-			 * handler, doesn't try to acquire the trans_lock of
-			 * the fs.
-			 */
-			trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root);
-			if (IS_ERR(trans))
-				return PTR_ERR(trans);
-
-			ret = btrfs_chunk_alloc(trans, alloc_target,
-						CHUNK_ALLOC_NO_FORCE);
-			btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
-			if (ret < 0) {
-				if (ret != -ENOSPC)
-					return ret;
-				else {
-					have_pinned_space = 1;
-					goto commit_trans;
-				}
-			}
-
-			goto again;
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * If we don't have enough pinned space to deal with this
-		 * allocation, and no removed chunk in current transaction,
-		 * don't bother committing the transaction.
-		 */
-		have_pinned_space = __percpu_counter_compare(
-			&data_sinfo->total_bytes_pinned,
-			used + bytes - data_sinfo->total_bytes,
-			BTRFS_TOTAL_BYTES_PINNED_BATCH);
-		spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
-
-		/* Commit the current transaction and try again */
-commit_trans:
-		if (need_commit) {
-			need_commit--;
-
-			if (need_commit > 0) {
-				btrfs_start_delalloc_roots(fs_info, -1);
-				btrfs_wait_ordered_roots(fs_info, U64_MAX, 0,
-							 (u64)-1);
-			}
-
-			trans = btrfs_join_transaction(root);
-			if (IS_ERR(trans))
-				return PTR_ERR(trans);
-			if (have_pinned_space >= 0 ||
-			    test_bit(BTRFS_TRANS_HAVE_FREE_BGS,
-				     &trans->transaction->flags) ||
-			    need_commit > 0) {
-				ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans);
-				if (ret)
-					return ret;
-				/*
-				 * The cleaner kthread might still be doing iput
-				 * operations. Wait for it to finish so that
-				 * more space is released.  We don't need to
-				 * explicitly run the delayed iputs here because
-				 * the commit_transaction would have woken up
-				 * the cleaner.
-				 */
-				ret = btrfs_wait_on_delayed_iputs(fs_info);
-				if (ret)
-					return ret;
-				goto again;
-			} else {
-				btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
-			}
-		}
-
-		trace_btrfs_space_reservation(fs_info,
-					      "space_info:enospc",
-					      data_sinfo->flags, bytes, 1);
-		return -ENOSPC;
-	}
-	btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use(fs_info, data_sinfo, bytes);
-	spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+	if (btrfs_is_free_space_inode(inode))
+		flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_FREE_SPACE_INODE;
 
-	return 0;
+	return btrfs_reserve_data_bytes(fs_info, bytes, flush);
 }
 
 int btrfs_check_data_free_space(struct inode *inode,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
index ad203717269c..6b71f6d3a348 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.c
@@ -1082,3 +1082,95 @@ int btrfs_reserve_metadata_bytes(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+
+/**
+ * btrfs_reserve_data_bytes - try to reserve data bytes for an allocation
+ * @root - the root we are allocating for
+ * @bytes - the number of bytes we need
+ * @flush - how we are allowed to flush
+ *
+ * This will reserve bytes from the data space info.  If there is not enough
+ * space then we will attempt to flush space as specified ty flush.
+ */
+int btrfs_reserve_data_bytes(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 bytes,
+			     enum btrfs_reserve_flush_enum flush)
+{
+	struct btrfs_space_info *data_sinfo = fs_info->data_sinfo;
+	const enum btrfs_flush_state *states = NULL;
+	u64 used;
+	int states_nr = 0;
+	int commit_cycles = 2;
+	int ret = -ENOSPC;
+
+	ASSERT(!current->journal_info || flush != BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_DATA);
+
+	if (flush == BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_DATA) {
+		states = data_flush_states;
+		states_nr = ARRAY_SIZE(data_flush_states);
+	}
+
+	spin_lock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+again:
+	used = btrfs_space_info_used(data_sinfo, true);
+
+	if (used + bytes > data_sinfo->total_bytes) {
+		u64 prev_total_bytes = data_sinfo->total_bytes;
+		int flush_state = 0;
+
+		spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+
+		/*
+		 * Everybody can force chunk allocation, so try this first to
+		 * see if we can just bail here and make our reservation.
+		 */
+		flush_space(fs_info, data_sinfo, bytes, ALLOC_CHUNK_FORCE);
+		spin_lock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+		if (prev_total_bytes < data_sinfo->total_bytes)
+			goto again;
+		spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+
+		/*
+		 * Cycle through the rest of the flushing options for our flush
+		 * type, then try again.
+		 */
+		while (flush_state < states_nr) {
+			u64 flush_bytes = U64_MAX;
+
+			/*
+			 * Previously we unconditionally committed the
+			 * transaction twice before finally checking against
+			 * pinned space before committing the final time.  We
+			 * also skipped flushing delalloc the final pass
+			 * through.
+			 */
+			if (!commit_cycles) {
+				if (states[flush_state] == FLUSH_DELALLOC_WAIT) {
+					flush_state++;
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (states[flush_state] == COMMIT_TRANS)
+					flush_bytes = bytes;
+			}
+
+			flush_space(fs_info, data_sinfo, flush_bytes,
+				    states[flush_state]);
+			flush_state++;
+		}
+
+		if (!commit_cycles)
+			goto out;
+
+		commit_cycles--;
+		spin_lock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+		goto again;
+	}
+	btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use(fs_info, data_sinfo, bytes);
+	ret = 0;
+	spin_unlock(&data_sinfo->lock);
+out:
+	if (ret)
+		trace_btrfs_space_reservation(fs_info,
+					      "space_info:enospc",
+					      data_sinfo->flags, bytes, 1);
+	return ret;
+}
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/space-info.h b/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
index 24514cd2c6c1..179f757c4a6b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/space-info.h
@@ -141,5 +141,7 @@ static inline void btrfs_space_info_free_bytes_may_use(
 	btrfs_try_granting_tickets(fs_info, space_info);
 	spin_unlock(&space_info->lock);
 }
+int btrfs_reserve_data_bytes(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 bytes,
+			     enum btrfs_reserve_flush_enum flush);
 
 #endif /* BTRFS_SPACE_INFO_H */
