diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index b16a99442b..b0f755f356 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -1562,53 +1562,6 @@ impl Timeline {
             Err(EvictionError::Timeout) => Ok(Some(false)),
         }
     }
-
-    fn should_roll(
-        &self,
-        layer_size: u64,
-        projected_layer_size: u64,
-        checkpoint_distance: u64,
-        projected_lsn: Lsn,
-        last_freeze_at: Lsn,
-        last_freeze_ts: Instant,
-    ) -> bool {
-        let distance = projected_lsn.widening_sub(last_freeze_at);
-
-        // Rolling the open layer can be triggered by:
-        // 1. The distance from the last LSN we rolled at. This bounds the amount of WAL that
-        //    the safekeepers need to store.  For sharded tenants, we multiply by shard count to
-        //    account for how writes are distributed across shards: we expect each node to consume
-        //    1/count of the LSN on average.
-        // 2. The size of the currently open layer.
-        // 3. The time since the last roll. It helps safekeepers to regard pageserver as caught
-        //    up and suspend activity.
-        if distance >= checkpoint_distance as i128 * self.shard_identity.count.count() as i128 {
-            info!(
-                "Will roll layer at {} with layer size {} due to LSN distance ({})",
-                projected_lsn, layer_size, distance
-            );
-
-            true
-        } else if projected_layer_size >= checkpoint_distance {
-            info!(
-                "Will roll layer at {} with layer size {} due to layer size ({})",
-                projected_lsn, layer_size, projected_layer_size
-            );
-
-            true
-        } else if distance > 0 && last_freeze_ts.elapsed() >= self.get_checkpoint_timeout() {
-            info!(
-                "Will roll layer at {} with layer size {} due to time since last flush ({:?})",
-                projected_lsn,
-                layer_size,
-                last_freeze_ts.elapsed()
-            );
-
-            true
-        } else {
-            false
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 /// Number of times we will compute partition within a checkpoint distance.