diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
index 7618a287aa41..28f8c08201e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
@@ -100,3 +100,7 @@ coherency=full  (*)	Disallow concurrent O_DIRECT writes, cluster inode
 coherency=buffered	Allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes without EX lock among
 			nodes, which gains high performance at risk of getting
 			stale data on other nodes.
+journal_async_commit	Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
+			for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
+			mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
+			internally.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index 7d6b7d090452..fdbcbfed529e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ enum ocfs2_mount_options
 						     writes */
 	OCFS2_MOUNT_HB_NONE = 1 << 13, /* No heartbeat */
 	OCFS2_MOUNT_HB_GLOBAL = 1 << 14, /* Global heartbeat */
+
+	OCFS2_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT = 1 << 15,  /* Journal Async Commit */
 };
 
 #define OCFS2_OSB_SOFT_RO	0x0001
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index 83723179e1ec..c09d6da23c3d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ enum {
 	Opt_coherency_full,
 	Opt_resv_level,
 	Opt_dir_resv_level,
+	Opt_journal_async_commit,
 	Opt_err,
 };
 
@@ -222,6 +223,7 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = {
 	{Opt_coherency_full, "coherency=full"},
 	{Opt_resv_level, "resv_level=%u"},
 	{Opt_dir_resv_level, "dir_resv_level=%u"},
+	{Opt_journal_async_commit, "journal_async_commit"},
 	{Opt_err, NULL}
 };
 
@@ -1500,6 +1502,9 @@ static int ocfs2_parse_options(struct super_block *sb,
 			    option < OCFS2_MAX_RESV_LEVEL)
 				mopt->dir_resv_level = option;
 			break;
+		case Opt_journal_async_commit:
+			mopt->mount_opt |= OCFS2_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT;
+			break;
 		default:
 			mlog(ML_ERROR,
 			     "Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" "
@@ -1606,6 +1611,9 @@ static int ocfs2_show_options(struct seq_file *s, struct dentry *root)
 	if (osb->osb_dir_resv_level != osb->osb_resv_level)
 		seq_printf(s, ",dir_resv_level=%d", osb->osb_resv_level);
 
+	if (opts & OCFS2_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT)
+		seq_printf(s, ",journal_async_commit");
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -2475,6 +2483,15 @@ static int ocfs2_check_volume(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 		goto finally;
 	}
 
+	if (osb->s_mount_opt & OCFS2_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT)
+		jbd2_journal_set_features(osb->journal->j_journal,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT);
+	else
+		jbd2_journal_clear_features(osb->journal->j_journal,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM, 0,
+				JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT);
+
 	if (dirty) {
 		/* recover my local alloc if we didn't unmount cleanly. */
 		status = ocfs2_begin_local_alloc_recovery(osb,