diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index a0fa3bf0d1bb..34640d6dbdcb 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1381,14 +1381,6 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
 	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
 		create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << inode->i_blkbits, 0);
 
-
-	/*
-	 *  VM calculation for nr_to_write seems off.  Bump it way
-	 *  up, this gets simple streaming writes zippy again.
-	 *  To be reviewed again after Jens' writeback changes.
-	 */
-	wbc->nr_to_write *= 4;
-
 	/*
 	 * Convert delayed allocate, unwritten or unmapped space
 	 * to real space and flush out to disk.