diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bc138805..b69007cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ members = [
 futures-core = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 futures-sink = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.7.1", features = ["codec"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.3", features = ["io", "codec"] }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["io-util"] }
 bytes = "1"
 http = "0.2"
diff --git a/src/codec/framed_write.rs b/src/codec/framed_write.rs
index 4b1b4acc..09a71505 100644
--- a/src/codec/framed_write.rs
+++ b/src/codec/framed_write.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ use bytes::{Buf, BufMut, BytesMut};
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use tokio::io::{AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, ReadBuf};
+use tokio_util::io::poll_write_buf;
 
-use std::io::{self, Cursor, IoSlice};
+use std::io::{self, Cursor};
 
 // A macro to get around a method needing to borrow &mut self
 macro_rules! limited_write_buf {
@@ -44,9 +45,6 @@ struct Encoder<B> {
 
     /// Max frame size, this is specified by the peer
     max_frame_size: FrameSize,
-
-    /// Whether or not the wrapped `AsyncWrite` supports vectored IO.
-    is_write_vectored: bool,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ where
     B: Buf,
 {
     pub fn new(inner: T) -> FramedWrite<T, B> {
-        let is_write_vectored = inner.is_write_vectored();
         FramedWrite {
             inner,
             encoder: Encoder {
@@ -85,7 +82,6 @@ where
                 next: None,
                 last_data_frame: None,
                 max_frame_size: frame::DEFAULT_MAX_FRAME_SIZE,
-                is_write_vectored,
             },
         }
     }
@@ -126,21 +122,15 @@ where
                     Some(Next::Data(ref mut frame)) => {
                         tracing::trace!(queued_data_frame = true);
                         let mut buf = (&mut self.encoder.buf).chain(frame.payload_mut());
-                        ready!(write(
-                            &mut self.inner,
-                            self.encoder.is_write_vectored,
-                            &mut buf,
-                            cx,
-                        ))?
+                        ready!(poll_write_buf(Pin::new(&mut self.inner), cx, &mut buf))?;
                     }
                     _ => {
                         tracing::trace!(queued_data_frame = false);
-                        ready!(write(
-                            &mut self.inner,
-                            self.encoder.is_write_vectored,
-                            &mut self.encoder.buf,
+                        ready!(poll_write_buf(
+                            Pin::new(&mut self.inner),
                             cx,
-                        ))?
+                            &mut self.encoder.buf
+                        ))?;
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -165,30 +155,6 @@ where
     }
 }
 
-fn write<T, B>(
-    writer: &mut T,
-    is_write_vectored: bool,
-    buf: &mut B,
-    cx: &mut Context<'_>,
-) -> Poll<io::Result<()>>
-where
-    T: AsyncWrite + Unpin,
-    B: Buf,
-{
-    // TODO(eliza): when tokio-util 0.5.1 is released, this
-    // could just use `poll_write_buf`...
-    const MAX_IOVS: usize = 64;
-    let n = if is_write_vectored {
-        let mut bufs = [IoSlice::new(&[]); MAX_IOVS];
-        let cnt = buf.chunks_vectored(&mut bufs);
-        ready!(Pin::new(writer).poll_write_vectored(cx, &bufs[..cnt]))?
-    } else {
-        ready!(Pin::new(writer).poll_write(cx, buf.chunk()))?
-    };
-    buf.advance(n);
-    Ok(()).into()
-}
-
 #[must_use]
 enum ControlFlow {
     Continue,