diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index b813fd7..5099e46 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1956,6 +1956,8 @@
  * there are other factors that may change the result (like a new metadata
  * chunk).
  *
+ * If metadata is exhausted, f_bavail will be 0.
+ *
  * FIXME: not accurate for mixed block groups, total and free/used are ok,
  * available appears slightly larger.
  */
@@ -1967,11 +1969,13 @@
 	struct btrfs_space_info *found;
 	u64 total_used = 0;
 	u64 total_free_data = 0;
+	u64 total_free_meta = 0;
 	int bits = dentry->d_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
 	__be32 *fsid = (__be32 *)fs_info->fsid;
 	unsigned factor = 1;
 	struct btrfs_block_rsv *block_rsv = &fs_info->global_block_rsv;
 	int ret;
+	u64 thresh = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * holding chunk_muext to avoid allocating new chunks, holding
@@ -1997,6 +2001,8 @@
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		if (found->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_METADATA)
+			total_free_meta += found->disk_total - found->disk_used;
 
 		total_used += found->disk_used;
 	}
@@ -2019,6 +2025,24 @@
 	buf->f_bavail += div_u64(total_free_data, factor);
 	buf->f_bavail = buf->f_bavail >> bits;
 
+	/*
+	 * We calculate the remaining metadata space minus global reserve. If
+	 * this is (supposedly) smaller than zero, there's no space. But this
+	 * does not hold in practice, the exhausted state happens where's still
+	 * some positive delta. So we apply some guesswork and compare the
+	 * delta to a 4M threshold.  (Practically observed delta was ~2M.)
+	 *
+	 * We probably cannot calculate the exact threshold value because this
+	 * depends on the internal reservations requested by various
+	 * operations, so some operations that consume a few metadata will
+	 * succeed even if the Avail is zero. But this is better than the other
+	 * way around.
+	 */
+	thresh = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+	if (total_free_meta - thresh < block_rsv->size)
+		buf->f_bavail = 0;
+
 	buf->f_type = BTRFS_SUPER_MAGIC;
 	buf->f_bsize = dentry->d_sb->s_blocksize;
 	buf->f_namelen = BTRFS_NAME_LEN;