diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c
index a42dbc343749..d5a46556e20e 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/caps.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c
@@ -2219,6 +2219,7 @@ static int caps_are_flushed(struct inode *inode, u64 flush_tid)
  */
 static int unsafe_request_wait(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc = ceph_sb_to_client(inode->i_sb)->mdsc;
 	struct ceph_inode_info *ci = ceph_inode(inode);
 	struct ceph_mds_request *req1 = NULL, *req2 = NULL;
 	int ret, err = 0;
@@ -2238,6 +2239,81 @@ static int unsafe_request_wait(struct inode *inode)
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&ci->i_unsafe_lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * Trigger to flush the journal logs in all the relevant MDSes
+	 * manually, or in the worst case we must wait at most 5 seconds
+	 * to wait the journal logs to be flushed by the MDSes periodically.
+	 */
+	if (req1 || req2) {
+		struct ceph_mds_session **sessions = NULL;
+		struct ceph_mds_session *s;
+		struct ceph_mds_request *req;
+		unsigned int max;
+		int i;
+
+		/*
+		 * The mdsc->max_sessions is unlikely to be changed
+		 * mostly, here we will retry it by reallocating the
+		 * sessions arrary memory to get rid of the mdsc->mutex
+		 * lock.
+		 */
+retry:
+		max = mdsc->max_sessions;
+		sessions = krealloc(sessions, max * sizeof(s), __GFP_ZERO);
+		if (!sessions)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		spin_lock(&ci->i_unsafe_lock);
+		if (req1) {
+			list_for_each_entry(req, &ci->i_unsafe_dirops,
+					    r_unsafe_dir_item) {
+				s = req->r_session;
+				if (unlikely(s->s_mds > max)) {
+					spin_unlock(&ci->i_unsafe_lock);
+					goto retry;
+				}
+				if (!sessions[s->s_mds]) {
+					s = ceph_get_mds_session(s);
+					sessions[s->s_mds] = s;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if (req2) {
+			list_for_each_entry(req, &ci->i_unsafe_iops,
+					    r_unsafe_target_item) {
+				s = req->r_session;
+				if (unlikely(s->s_mds > max)) {
+					spin_unlock(&ci->i_unsafe_lock);
+					goto retry;
+				}
+				if (!sessions[s->s_mds]) {
+					s = ceph_get_mds_session(s);
+					sessions[s->s_mds] = s;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&ci->i_unsafe_lock);
+
+		/* the auth MDS */
+		spin_lock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+		if (ci->i_auth_cap) {
+		      s = ci->i_auth_cap->session;
+		      if (!sessions[s->s_mds])
+			      sessions[s->s_mds] = ceph_get_mds_session(s);
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&ci->i_ceph_lock);
+
+		/* send flush mdlog request to MDSes */
+		for (i = 0; i < max; i++) {
+			s = sessions[i];
+			if (s) {
+				send_flush_mdlog(s);
+				ceph_put_mds_session(s);
+			}
+		}
+		kfree(sessions);
+	}
+
 	dout("unsafe_request_wait %p wait on tid %llu %llu\n",
 	     inode, req1 ? req1->r_tid : 0ULL, req2 ? req2->r_tid : 0ULL);
 	if (req1) {