diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index e2223ef2a254..79035fcba930 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -39,33 +39,6 @@ static inline bool xfs_ioend_is_append(struct iomap_ioend *ioend)
 		XFS_I(ioend->io_inode)->i_disk_size;
 }
 
-STATIC int
-xfs_setfilesize_trans_alloc(
-	struct iomap_ioend	*ioend)
-{
-	struct xfs_mount	*mp = XFS_I(ioend->io_inode)->i_mount;
-	struct xfs_trans	*tp;
-	int			error;
-
-	error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_fsyncts, 0, 0, 0, &tp);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
-	ioend->io_private = tp;
-
-	/*
-	 * We may pass freeze protection with a transaction.  So tell lockdep
-	 * we released it.
-	 */
-	__sb_writers_release(ioend->io_inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
-	/*
-	 * We hand off the transaction to the completion thread now, so
-	 * clear the flag here.
-	 */
-	xfs_trans_clear_context(tp);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 /*
  * Update on-disk file size now that data has been written to disk.
  */
@@ -182,12 +155,10 @@ xfs_end_ioend(
 		error = xfs_reflink_end_cow(ip, offset, size);
 	else if (ioend->io_type == IOMAP_UNWRITTEN)
 		error = xfs_iomap_write_unwritten(ip, offset, size, false);
-	else
-		ASSERT(!xfs_ioend_is_append(ioend) || ioend->io_private);
 
+	if (!error && xfs_ioend_is_append(ioend))
+		error = xfs_setfilesize(ip, ioend->io_offset, ioend->io_size);
 done:
-	if (ioend->io_private)
-		error = xfs_setfilesize_ioend(ioend, error);
 	iomap_finish_ioends(ioend, error);
 	memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 }
@@ -237,7 +208,7 @@ xfs_end_io(
 
 static inline bool xfs_ioend_needs_workqueue(struct iomap_ioend *ioend)
 {
-	return ioend->io_private ||
+	return xfs_ioend_is_append(ioend) ||
 		ioend->io_type == IOMAP_UNWRITTEN ||
 		(ioend->io_flags & IOMAP_F_SHARED);
 }
@@ -250,8 +221,6 @@ xfs_end_bio(
 	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(ioend->io_inode);
 	unsigned long		flags;
 
-	ASSERT(xfs_ioend_needs_workqueue(ioend));
-
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ip->i_ioend_lock, flags);
 	if (list_empty(&ip->i_ioend_list))
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(!queue_work(ip->i_mount->m_unwritten_workqueue,
@@ -501,14 +470,6 @@ xfs_prepare_ioend(
 				ioend->io_offset, ioend->io_size);
 	}
 
-	/* Reserve log space if we might write beyond the on-disk inode size. */
-	if (!status &&
-	    ((ioend->io_flags & IOMAP_F_SHARED) ||
-	     ioend->io_type != IOMAP_UNWRITTEN) &&
-	    xfs_ioend_is_append(ioend) &&
-	    !ioend->io_private)
-		status = xfs_setfilesize_trans_alloc(ioend);
-
 	memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 
 	if (xfs_ioend_needs_workqueue(ioend))