diff --git a/kmod/src/format.h b/kmod/src/format.h
index d94fbe82..3cc2bb4f 100644
--- a/kmod/src/format.h
+++ b/kmod/src/format.h
@@ -970,7 +970,6 @@ struct scoutfs_net_greeting {
  * response messages.
  */
 struct scoutfs_net_header {
-	__le64 clock_sync_id;
 	__le64 seq;
 	__le64 recv_seq;
 	__le64 id;
diff --git a/kmod/src/net.c b/kmod/src/net.c
index 49ea837e..45e907ac 100644
--- a/kmod/src/net.c
+++ b/kmod/src/net.c
@@ -629,8 +629,6 @@ static void scoutfs_net_recv_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 			break;
 		}
 
-		trace_scoutfs_recv_clock_sync(nh.clock_sync_id);
-
 		data_len = le16_to_cpu(nh.data_len);
 
 		scoutfs_inc_counter(sb, net_recv_messages);
@@ -785,9 +783,6 @@ static void scoutfs_net_send_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 		trace_scoutfs_net_send_message(sb, &conn->sockname,
 					       &conn->peername, &msend->nh);
 
-		msend->nh.clock_sync_id = scoutfs_clock_sync_id();
-		trace_scoutfs_send_clock_sync(msend->nh.clock_sync_id);
-
 		ret = sendmsg_full(conn->sock, &msend->nh, len);
 
 		spin_lock(&conn->lock);
diff --git a/kmod/src/scoutfs_trace.h b/kmod/src/scoutfs_trace.h
index 13ba3ae6..80db3247 100644
--- a/kmod/src/scoutfs_trace.h
+++ b/kmod/src/scoutfs_trace.h
@@ -1954,32 +1954,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(scoutfs_quorum_loop,
 		  __entry->timeout_sec, __entry->timeout_nsec)
 );
 
-/*
- * We can emit trace events to make it easier to synchronize the
- * monotonic clocks in trace logs between nodes.  By looking at the send
- * and recv times of many messages flowing between nodes we can get
- * surprisingly good estimates of the clock offset between them.
- */
-DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(scoutfs_clock_sync_class,
-	TP_PROTO(__le64 clock_sync_id),
-	TP_ARGS(clock_sync_id),
-	TP_STRUCT__entry(
-		__field(__u64, clock_sync_id)
-	),
-	TP_fast_assign(
-		__entry->clock_sync_id = le64_to_cpu(clock_sync_id);
-	),
-	TP_printk("clock_sync_id %016llx", __entry->clock_sync_id)
-);
-DEFINE_EVENT(scoutfs_clock_sync_class, scoutfs_send_clock_sync,
-	TP_PROTO(__le64 clock_sync_id),
-	TP_ARGS(clock_sync_id)
-);
-DEFINE_EVENT(scoutfs_clock_sync_class, scoutfs_recv_clock_sync,
-	TP_PROTO(__le64 clock_sync_id),
-	TP_ARGS(clock_sync_id)
-);
-
 TRACE_EVENT(scoutfs_trans_seq_last,
 	TP_PROTO(struct super_block *sb, u64 rid, u64 trans_seq),
 
diff --git a/kmod/src/super.c b/kmod/src/super.c
index b2e821af..6dcb244f 100644
--- a/kmod/src/super.c
+++ b/kmod/src/super.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <linux/statfs.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
-#include <linux/percpu.h>
 
 #include "super.h"
 #include "block.h"
@@ -52,37 +51,6 @@
 
 static struct dentry *scoutfs_debugfs_root;
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, clock_sync_ids) = 0;
-
-/*
- * Give the caller a unique clock sync id for a message they're about to
- * send.  We make the ids reasonably globally unique by using randomly
- * initialized per-cpu 64bit counters.
- */
-__le64 scoutfs_clock_sync_id(void)
-{
-	u64 rnd = 0;
-	u64 ret;
-	u64 *id;
-
-retry:
-	preempt_disable();
-	id = this_cpu_ptr(&clock_sync_ids);
-	if (*id == 0) {
-		if (rnd == 0) {
-			preempt_enable();
-			get_random_bytes(&rnd, sizeof(rnd));
-			goto retry;
-		}
-		*id = rnd;
-	}
-
-	ret = ++(*id);
-	preempt_enable();
-
-	return cpu_to_le64(ret);
-}
-
 /* the statfs file fields can be small (and signed?) :/ */
 static __statfs_word saturate_truncated_word(u64 files)
 {
diff --git a/kmod/src/super.h b/kmod/src/super.h
index 4ca4b88f..51c11722 100644
--- a/kmod/src/super.h
+++ b/kmod/src/super.h
@@ -160,6 +160,4 @@ int scoutfs_write_super(struct super_block *sb,
 /* to keep this out of the ioctl.h public interface definition */
 long scoutfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
 
-__le64 scoutfs_clock_sync_id(void);
-
 #endif