diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index 6cedcfea33b5..3cb25f1f8aa8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -521,10 +521,6 @@ i915_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, struct i915_gem_context *ctx)
 
 	reserve_gt(i915);
 
-	ret = intel_ring_wait_for_space(ce->ring, MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST);
-	if (ret)
-		goto err_unreserve;
-
 	/* Move our oldest request to the slab-cache (if not in use!) */
 	rq = list_first_entry(&ce->ring->request_list, typeof(*rq), ring_link);
 	if (!list_is_last(&rq->ring_link, &ce->ring->request_list) &&
@@ -616,9 +612,14 @@ i915_request_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, struct i915_gem_context *ctx)
 	 * i915_request_add() call can't fail. Note that the reserve may need
 	 * to be redone if the request is not actually submitted straight
 	 * away, e.g. because a GPU scheduler has deferred it.
+	 *
+	 * Note that due to how we add reserved_space to intel_ring_begin()
+	 * we need to double our request to ensure that if we need to wrap
+	 * around inside i915_request_add() there is sufficient space at
+	 * the beginning of the ring as well.
 	 */
-	rq->reserved_space = MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST;
-	GEM_BUG_ON(rq->reserved_space < engine->emit_breadcrumb_sz);
+	rq->reserved_space = 2 * engine->emit_breadcrumb_sz * sizeof(u32);
+	GEM_BUG_ON(!rq->reserved_space);
 
 	/*
 	 * Record the position of the start of the request so that
@@ -860,8 +861,8 @@ void i915_request_add(struct i915_request *request)
 	 * should already have been reserved in the ring buffer. Let the ring
 	 * know that it is time to use that space up.
 	 */
+	GEM_BUG_ON(request->reserved_space < request->ring->space);
 	request->reserved_space = 0;
-	engine->emit_flush(request, EMIT_FLUSH);
 
 	/*
 	 * Record the position of the start of the breadcrumb so that
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index 169c54995ca9..939ba872bff6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1864,22 +1864,6 @@ static noinline int wait_for_space(struct intel_ring *ring, unsigned int bytes)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int intel_ring_wait_for_space(struct intel_ring *ring, unsigned int bytes)
-{
-	GEM_BUG_ON(bytes > ring->effective_size);
-	if (unlikely(bytes > ring->effective_size - ring->emit))
-		bytes += ring->size - ring->emit;
-
-	if (unlikely(bytes > ring->space)) {
-		int ret = wait_for_space(ring, bytes);
-		if (unlikely(ret))
-			return ret;
-	}
-
-	GEM_BUG_ON(ring->space < bytes);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 u32 *intel_ring_begin(struct i915_request *rq, unsigned int num_dwords)
 {
 	struct intel_ring *ring = rq->ring;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
index 32606d795af3..99e2cb75d29a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
@@ -754,7 +754,6 @@ void intel_legacy_submission_resume(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv);
 
 int __must_check intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct i915_request *rq);
 
-int intel_ring_wait_for_space(struct intel_ring *ring, unsigned int bytes);
 u32 __must_check *intel_ring_begin(struct i915_request *rq, unsigned int n);
 
 static inline void intel_ring_advance(struct i915_request *rq, u32 *cs)
@@ -895,15 +894,6 @@ static inline bool intel_engine_has_started(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 void intel_engine_get_instdone(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 			       struct intel_instdone *instdone);
 
-/*
- * Arbitrary size for largest possible 'add request' sequence. The code paths
- * are complex and variable. Empirical measurement shows that the worst case
- * is BDW at 192 bytes (6 + 6 + 36 dwords), then ILK at 136 bytes. However,
- * we need to allocate double the largest single packet within that emission
- * to account for tail wraparound (so 6 + 6 + 72 dwords for BDW).
- */
-#define MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST 336
-
 static inline u32 intel_hws_seqno_address(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
 	return engine->status_page.ggtt_offset + I915_GEM_HWS_INDEX_ADDR;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_engine.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_engine.c
index d0c44c18db42..50e1a0b1af7e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_engine.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_engine.c
@@ -148,8 +148,6 @@ static struct intel_ring *mock_ring(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	const unsigned long sz = PAGE_SIZE / 2;
 	struct mock_ring *ring;
 
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(MIN_SPACE_FOR_ADD_REQUEST > sz);
-
 	ring = kzalloc(sizeof(*ring) + sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ring)
 		return NULL;
