diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DirectoryScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DirectoryScanner.java
index aa5cdb8fee..445e021204 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DirectoryScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DirectoryScanner.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class DirectoryScanner implements Runnable {
       LoggerFactory.getLogger(DirectoryScanner.class);
 
   private static final int DEFAULT_MAP_SIZE = 32768;
-  private static final int RECONCILE_BLOCKS_BATCH_SIZE = 1000;
+
   private final FsDatasetSpi<?> dataset;
   private final ExecutorService reportCompileThreadPool;
   private final ScheduledExecutorService masterThread;
@@ -424,23 +424,10 @@ public class DirectoryScanner implements Runnable {
    */
   @VisibleForTesting
   public void reconcile() throws IOException {
-    LOG.debug("reconcile start DirectoryScanning");
     scan();
 
-    // HDFS-14476: run checkAndUpadte with batch to avoid holding the lock too
-    // long
-    int loopCount = 0;
     for (final Map.Entry<String, ScanInfo> entry : diffs.getEntries()) {
       dataset.checkAndUpdate(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
-
-      if (loopCount % RECONCILE_BLOCKS_BATCH_SIZE == 0) {
-        try {
-          Thread.sleep(2000);
-        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
-          // do nothing
-        }
-      }
-      loopCount++;
     }
 
     if (!retainDiffs) {