diff --git a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
index ac0b39d..661b0ac 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@
 	 */
 	u64 index_cnt;
 
+	/* Cache the directory index number to speed the dir/file remove */
+	u64 dir_index;
+
 	/* the fsync log has some corner cases that mean we have to check
 	 * directories to see if any unlinks have been done before
 	 * the directory was logged.  See tree-log.c for all the