On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:06:00AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > When we drop last handle from a transaction and journal->j_barrier_count > > 0, jbd2_journal_stop() wakes up journal->j_wait_transaction_locked > wait queue. This looks pointless - wait for outstanding handles always > happens on journal->j_wait_updates waitqueue. > journal->j_wait_transaction_locked is used to wait for transaction state > changes and by start_this_handle() for waiting until > journal->j_barrier_count drops to 0. The first case is clearly > irrelevant here since only jbd2 thread changes transaction state. The > second case looks related but jbd2_journal_unlock_updates() is > responsible for the wakeup in this case. So just drop the wakeup. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Looks good; feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>