diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 6fed30c3f9ce..793e033cbd17 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -411,14 +411,6 @@ static noinline int compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 	    (start > 0 || end + 1 < BTRFS_I(inode)->disk_i_size))
 		btrfs_add_inode_defrag(NULL, inode);
 
-	/*
-	 * skip compression for a small file range(<=blocksize) that
-	 * isn't an inline extent, since it dosen't save disk space at all.
-	 */
-	if ((end - start + 1) <= blocksize &&
-	    (start > 0 || end + 1 < BTRFS_I(inode)->disk_i_size))
-		goto cleanup_and_bail_uncompressed;
-
 	actual_end = min_t(u64, isize, end + 1);
 again:
 	will_compress = 0;
@@ -440,6 +432,14 @@ again:
 
 	total_compressed = actual_end - start;
 
+	/*
+	 * skip compression for a small file range(<=blocksize) that
+	 * isn't an inline extent, since it dosen't save disk space at all.
+	 */
+	if (total_compressed <= blocksize &&
+	   (start > 0 || end + 1 < BTRFS_I(inode)->disk_i_size))
+		goto cleanup_and_bail_uncompressed;
+
 	/* we want to make sure that amount of ram required to uncompress
 	 * an extent is reasonable, so we limit the total size in ram
 	 * of a compressed extent to 128k.  This is a crucial number