diff --git a/docs/btrfs-kernel.md b/docs/btrfs-kernel.md
index 29cdae5..eb46cbd 100644
--- a/docs/btrfs-kernel.md
+++ b/docs/btrfs-kernel.md
@@ -96,16 +96,6 @@ Workarounds for known kernel bugs
   at the same time can lead to a kernel hang.  The workaround is
   to reduce the thread count to 1 with `-c1`.
 
-* **Tree mod log issues**:  bees will detect that a btrfs balance is
-  running, and pause bees activity until the balance is done.  This avoids
-  running both the `LOGICAL_INO` ioctl and btrfs balance at the same time,
-  which avoids kernel crashes on old kernel versions.
-
-  The numbers for "tree mod log issue #" in the above table are arbitrary.
-  There are a lot of them, and they all behave fairly similarly.
-
-  This workaround is less necessary for kernels 5.4.19 and later.
-
 * **Slow backrefs** (aka toxic extents):  Under certain conditions,
   if the number of references to a single shared extent grows too
   high, the kernel consumes more and more CPU while also holding locks
diff --git a/src/bees-context.cc b/src/bees-context.cc
index 04fadff..c49a903 100644
--- a/src/bees-context.cc
+++ b/src/bees-context.cc
@@ -752,33 +752,6 @@ BeesResolveAddrResult::BeesResolveAddrResult()
 {
 }
 
-void
-BeesContext::wait_for_balance()
-{
-	if (!BEES_SERIALIZE_BALANCE) {
-		return;
-	}
-
-	Timer balance_timer;
-	BEESNOTE("WORKAROUND: waiting for balance to stop");
-	while (true) {
-		btrfs_ioctl_balance_args args {};
-		const int ret = ioctl(root_fd(), BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE_PROGRESS, &args);
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			// Either can't get balance status or not running, exit either way
-			break;
-		}
-
-		if (!(args.state & BTRFS_BALANCE_STATE_RUNNING)) {
-			// Balance not running, doesn't matter if paused or cancelled
-			break;
-		}
-
-		BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: Waiting " << balance_timer << "s for balance to stop");
-		nanosleep(BEES_BALANCE_POLL_INTERVAL);
-	}
-}
-
 BeesResolveAddrResult
 BeesContext::resolve_addr_uncached(BeesAddress addr)
 {
@@ -790,9 +763,6 @@ BeesContext::resolve_addr_uncached(BeesAddress addr)
 	// transaction latency, competing threads, and freeze/SIGSTOP
 	// pausing the bees process.
 
-	// Wait for the balance to finish before we run LOGICAL_INO
-	wait_for_balance();
-
         BtrfsIoctlLogicalInoArgs log_ino(addr.get_physical_or_zero());
 
 	// Time how long this takes
diff --git a/src/bees.h b/src/bees.h
index b300621..e411c8d 100644
--- a/src/bees.h
+++ b/src/bees.h
@@ -108,12 +108,6 @@ const size_t BEES_MAX_CRAWL_BATCH = 128;
 // Wait this many transids between crawls
 const size_t BEES_TRANSID_FACTOR = 10;
 
-// Wait this long for a balance to stop
-const double BEES_BALANCE_POLL_INTERVAL = 60.0;
-
-// Workaround for tree mod log bugs
-const bool BEES_SERIALIZE_BALANCE = false;
-
 // Workaround for silly dedupe / ineffective readahead behavior
 const size_t BEES_READAHEAD_SIZE = 1024 * 1024;
 
@@ -753,7 +747,6 @@ class BeesContext : public enable_shared_from_this<BeesContext> {
 	void set_root_fd(Fd fd);
 
 	BeesResolveAddrResult resolve_addr_uncached(BeesAddress addr);
-	void wait_for_balance();
 
 	BeesFileRange scan_one_extent(const BeesFileRange &bfr, const Extent &e);
 	void rewrite_file_range(const BeesFileRange &bfr);