diff --git a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
index 7c7bf81..ed8ca7c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@
 	/* flags field from the on disk inode */
 	u32 flags;
 
+	/* a local copy of root's last_log_commit */
+	unsigned long last_log_commit;
+
 	/*
 	 * Counters to keep track of the number of extent item's we may use due
 	 * to delalloc and such.  outstanding_extents is the number of extent
@@ -203,15 +206,10 @@
 
 static inline int btrfs_inode_in_log(struct inode *inode, u64 generation)
 {
-	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	mutex_lock(&root->log_mutex);
 	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->logged_trans == generation &&
-	    BTRFS_I(inode)->last_sub_trans <= root->last_log_commit)
-		ret = 1;
-	mutex_unlock(&root->log_mutex);
-	return ret;
+	    BTRFS_I(inode)->last_sub_trans <= BTRFS_I(inode)->last_log_commit)
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 #endif
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index a6824bd..24745b8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -6774,6 +6774,7 @@
 
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_trans = root->fs_info->generation;
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_sub_trans = BTRFS_I(inode)->root->log_transid;
+	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_log_commit = BTRFS_I(inode)->root->last_log_commit;
 
 	unlock_extent_cached(io_tree, page_start, page_end, &cached_state, GFP_NOFS);
 
@@ -7018,6 +7019,7 @@
 	ei->csum_bytes = 0;
 	ei->index_cnt = (u64)-1;
 	ei->last_unlink_trans = 0;
+	ei->last_log_commit = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&ei->lock);
 	ei->outstanding_extents = 0;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
index e8b8416..1a138bf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@
 {
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_trans = trans->transaction->transid;
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_sub_trans = BTRFS_I(inode)->root->log_transid;
+	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_log_commit = BTRFS_I(inode)->root->last_log_commit;
 }
 
 int btrfs_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 71e7153..fc0df95 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -3185,6 +3185,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->logged_trans = trans->transid;
+	BTRFS_I(inode)->last_log_commit = BTRFS_I(inode)->last_sub_trans;
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->log_mutex);