diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 29552d4f6845..33b8fedab6c6 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ again:
 	 * inode has not been flagged as nocompress.  This flag can
 	 * change at any time if we discover bad compression ratios.
 	 */
-	if (nr_pages > 1 && inode_need_compress(inode, start, end)) {
+	if (inode_need_compress(inode, start, end)) {
 		WARN_ON(pages);
 		pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!pages) {