diff --git a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
index 5a5d325..634608d2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
@@ -147,14 +147,12 @@
 	 * the btrfs file release call will add this inode to the
 	 * ordered operations list so that we make sure to flush out any
 	 * new data the application may have written before commit.
-	 *
-	 * yes, its silly to have a single bitflag, but we might grow more
-	 * of these.
 	 */
 	unsigned ordered_data_close:1;
 	unsigned orphan_meta_reserved:1;
 	unsigned dummy_inode:1;
 	unsigned in_defrag:1;
+	unsigned delalloc_meta_reserved:1;
 
 	/*
 	 * always compress this one file
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
index bbe8496..313ee14 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
@@ -617,12 +617,14 @@
 static int btrfs_delayed_inode_reserve_metadata(
 					struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 					struct btrfs_root *root,
+					struct inode *inode,
 					struct btrfs_delayed_node *node)
 {
 	struct btrfs_block_rsv *src_rsv;
 	struct btrfs_block_rsv *dst_rsv;
 	u64 num_bytes;
 	int ret;
+	int release = false;
 
 	src_rsv = trans->block_rsv;
 	dst_rsv = &root->fs_info->delayed_block_rsv;
@@ -652,11 +654,67 @@
 		if (!ret)
 			node->bytes_reserved = num_bytes;
 		return ret;
+	} else if (src_rsv == &root->fs_info->delalloc_block_rsv) {
+		spin_lock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
+		if (BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved) {
+			BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved = 0;
+			spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
+			release = true;
+			goto migrate;
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
+
+		/* Ok we didn't have space pre-reserved.  This shouldn't happen
+		 * too often but it can happen if we do delalloc to an existing
+		 * inode which gets dirtied because of the time update, and then
+		 * isn't touched again until after the transaction commits and
+		 * then we try to write out the data.  First try to be nice and
+		 * reserve something strictly for us.  If not be a pain and try
+		 * to steal from the delalloc block rsv.
+		 */
+		ret = btrfs_block_rsv_add_noflush(root, dst_rsv, num_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			goto out;
+
+		ret = btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(src_rsv, dst_rsv, num_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			goto out;
+
+		/*
+		 * Ok this is a problem, let's just steal from the global rsv
+		 * since this really shouldn't happen that often.
+		 */
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		ret = btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(&root->fs_info->global_block_rsv,
+					      dst_rsv, num_bytes);
+		goto out;
 	}
 
+migrate:
 	ret = btrfs_block_rsv_migrate(src_rsv, dst_rsv, num_bytes);
-	if (!ret)
-		node->bytes_reserved = num_bytes;
+	if (unlikely(ret)) {
+		/* This shouldn't happen */
+		BUG_ON(release);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+out:
+	/*
+	 * Migrate only takes a reservation, it doesn't touch the size of the
+	 * block_rsv.  This is to simplify people who don't normally have things
+	 * migrated from their block rsv.  If they go to release their
+	 * reservation, that will decrease the size as well, so if migrate
+	 * reduced size we'd end up with a negative size.  But for the
+	 * delalloc_meta_reserved stuff we will only know to drop 1 reservation,
+	 * but we could in fact do this reserve/migrate dance several times
+	 * between the time we did the original reservation and we'd clean it
+	 * up.  So to take care of this, release the space for the meta
+	 * reservation here.  I think it may be time for a documentation page on
+	 * how block rsvs. work.
+	 */
+	if (release)
+		btrfs_block_rsv_release(root, src_rsv, num_bytes);
+	node->bytes_reserved = num_bytes;
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1708,7 +1766,8 @@
 		goto release_node;
 	}
 
-	ret = btrfs_delayed_inode_reserve_metadata(trans, root, delayed_node);
+	ret = btrfs_delayed_inode_reserve_metadata(trans, root, inode,
+						   delayed_node);
 	if (ret)
 		goto release_node;
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 18ea90c..0b044e5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4063,23 +4063,30 @@
  */
 static unsigned drop_outstanding_extent(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	unsigned drop_inode_space = 0;
 	unsigned dropped_extents = 0;
 
 	BUG_ON(!BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents);
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents--;
 
+	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents == 0 &&
+	    BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved) {
+		drop_inode_space = 1;
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved = 0;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If we have more or the same amount of outsanding extents than we have
 	 * reserved then we need to leave the reserved extents count alone.
 	 */
 	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents >=
 	    BTRFS_I(inode)->reserved_extents)
-		return 0;
+		return drop_inode_space;
 
 	dropped_extents = BTRFS_I(inode)->reserved_extents -
 		BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents;
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->reserved_extents -= dropped_extents;
-	return dropped_extents;
+	return dropped_extents + drop_inode_space;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -4165,9 +4172,18 @@
 		nr_extents = BTRFS_I(inode)->outstanding_extents -
 			BTRFS_I(inode)->reserved_extents;
 		BTRFS_I(inode)->reserved_extents += nr_extents;
-
-		to_reserve = btrfs_calc_trans_metadata_size(root, nr_extents);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Add an item to reserve for updating the inode when we complete the
+	 * delalloc io.
+	 */
+	if (!BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved) {
+		nr_extents++;
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_meta_reserved = 1;
+	}
+
+	to_reserve = btrfs_calc_trans_metadata_size(root, nr_extents);
 	to_reserve += calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 1);
 	spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index f60e249..2b92059 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -6607,6 +6607,7 @@
 	ei->orphan_meta_reserved = 0;
 	ei->dummy_inode = 0;
 	ei->in_defrag = 0;
+	ei->delalloc_meta_reserved = 0;
 	ei->force_compress = BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE;
 
 	ei->delayed_node = NULL;