diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index c65fe5de4022..7fed887e700c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -1145,13 +1145,13 @@ static void submit_one_async_extent(struct async_chunk *async_chunk,
 				   0, *alloc_hint, &ins, 1, 1);
 	if (ret) {
 		/*
-		 * Here we used to try again by going back to non-compressed
-		 * path for ENOSPC.  But we can't reserve space even for
-		 * compressed size, how could it work for uncompressed size
-		 * which requires larger size?  So here we directly go error
-		 * path.
+		 * We can't reserve contiguous space for the compressed size.
+		 * Unlikely, but it's possible that we could have enough
+		 * non-contiguous space for the uncompressed size instead.  So
+		 * fall back to uncompressed.
 		 */
-		goto out_free;
+		submit_uncompressed_range(inode, async_extent, locked_page);
+		goto done;
 	}
 
 	/* Here we're doing allocation and writeback of the compressed pages */
@@ -1203,7 +1203,6 @@ done:
 out_free_reserve:
 	btrfs_dec_block_group_reservations(fs_info, ins.objectid);
 	btrfs_free_reserved_extent(fs_info, ins.objectid, ins.offset, 1);
-out_free:
 	mapping_set_error(inode->vfs_inode.i_mapping, -EIO);
 	extent_clear_unlock_delalloc(inode, start, end,
 				     NULL, EXTENT_LOCKED | EXTENT_DELALLOC |