diff --git a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c
index 524e66f..1359c4a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c
@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@
 
 /* The generic layer is about to remove the req from the commit list.
  * If this will make the bucket empty, it will need to put the lseg reference.
+ * Note this is must be called holding the inode (/cinfo) lock
  */
 static void
 filelayout_clear_request_commit(struct nfs_page *req,
@@ -1016,7 +1017,6 @@
 {
 	struct pnfs_layout_segment *freeme = NULL;
 
-	spin_lock(cinfo->lock);
 	if (!test_and_clear_bit(PG_COMMIT_TO_DS, &req->wb_flags))
 		goto out;
 	cinfo->ds->nwritten--;
@@ -1031,8 +1031,7 @@
 	}
 out:
 	nfs_request_remove_commit_list(req, cinfo);
-	spin_unlock(cinfo->lock);
-	pnfs_put_lseg(freeme);
+	pnfs_put_lseg_async(freeme);
 }
 
 static void