diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index f04de2553c90ba..893d099e009933 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -1090,7 +1090,8 @@ static void nfs4_free_deleg(struct nfs4_stid *stid)
  * When a delegation is recalled, the filehandle is stored in the "new"
  * filter.
  * Every 30 seconds we swap the filters and clear the "new" one,
- * unless both are empty of course.
+ * unless both are empty of course.  This results in delegations for a
+ * given filehandle being blocked for between 30 and 60 seconds.
  *
  * Each filter is 256 bits.  We hash the filehandle to 32bit and use the
  * low 3 bytes as hash-table indices.
@@ -1119,9 +1120,9 @@ static int delegation_blocked(struct knfsd_fh *fh)
 		if (ktime_get_seconds() - bd->swap_time > 30) {
 			bd->entries -= bd->old_entries;
 			bd->old_entries = bd->entries;
+			bd->new = 1-bd->new;
 			memset(bd->set[bd->new], 0,
 			       sizeof(bd->set[0]));
-			bd->new = 1-bd->new;
 			bd->swap_time = ktime_get_seconds();
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&blocked_delegations_lock);