Merge 5.10-rc4 into here.

We need the USB/Thunderbolt fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index fa688e163a80..b121d7d434c6 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 		schedule();
 		write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 		finish_wait(&journal->j_fc_wait, &wait);
+		/*
+		 * TODO: by blocking fast commits here, we are increasing
+		 * fsync() latency slightly. Strictly speaking, we don't need
+		 * to block fast commits until the transaction enters T_FLUSH
+		 * state. So an optimization is possible where we block new fast
+		 * commits here and wait for existing ones to complete
+		 * just before we enter T_FLUSH. That way, the existing fast
+		 * commits and this full commit can proceed parallely.
+		 */
 	}
 	write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
@@ -801,7 +810,7 @@ start_journal_io:
 		if (first_block < journal->j_tail)
 			freed += journal->j_last - journal->j_first;
 		/* Update tail only if we free significant amount of space */
-		if (freed < journal->j_maxlen / 4)
+		if (freed < jbd2_journal_get_max_txn_bufs(journal))
 			update_tail = 0;
 	}
 	J_ASSERT(commit_transaction->t_state == T_COMMIT);