diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 77260cb9d0b2..febe0da2336f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -692,31 +692,21 @@ static void end_bbio_data_read(struct btrfs_bio *bbio)
 int btrfs_alloc_page_array(unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **page_array,
 			   gfp_t extra_gfp)
 {
+	const gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS | extra_gfp;
 	unsigned int allocated;
 
 	for (allocated = 0; allocated < nr_pages;) {
 		unsigned int last = allocated;
 
-		allocated = alloc_pages_bulk_array(GFP_NOFS | extra_gfp,
-						   nr_pages, page_array);
-
-		if (allocated == nr_pages)
-			return 0;
-
-		/*
-		 * During this iteration, no page could be allocated, even
-		 * though alloc_pages_bulk_array() falls back to alloc_page()
-		 * if  it could not bulk-allocate. So we must be out of memory.
-		 */
-		if (allocated == last) {
+		allocated = alloc_pages_bulk_array(gfp, nr_pages, page_array);
+		if (unlikely(allocated == last)) {
+			/* No progress, fail and do cleanup. */
 			for (int i = 0; i < allocated; i++) {
 				__free_page(page_array[i]);
 				page_array[i] = NULL;
 			}
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
-
-		memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_NOFS);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }