diff --git a/src/networking.cpp b/src/networking.cpp
index a7920b692..8b1fb7e36 100644
--- a/src/networking.cpp
+++ b/src/networking.cpp
@@ -2000,18 +2000,6 @@ void ProcessPendingAsyncWrites()
         }
 
         c->fPendingAsyncWrite = FALSE;
-        // Now install the write event handler
-        int ae_flags = AE_WRITABLE|AE_WRITE_THREADSAFE;
-        /* For the fsync=always policy, we want that a given FD is never
-            * served for reading and writing in the same event loop iteration,
-            * so that in the middle of receiving the query, and serving it
-            * to the client, we'll call beforeSleep() that will do the
-            * actual fsync of AOF to disk. AE_BARRIER ensures that. */
-        if (g_pserver->aof_state == AOF_ON &&
-            g_pserver->aof_fsync == AOF_FSYNC_ALWAYS)
-        {
-            ae_flags |= AE_BARRIER;
-        }
 
         if (!((c->replstate == REPL_STATE_NONE || c->replstate == SLAVE_STATE_FASTSYNC_TX ||
          (c->replstate == SLAVE_STATE_ONLINE && !c->repl_put_online_on_ack))))