In commit fe39d02f (MDEV-20638)
we removed some wake-up signaling of the master thread that should
have been there, to ensure a steady log checkpointing workload.

Common sense suggests that the commit omitted some necessary calls
to srv_inc_activity_count(). But, an attempt to add the call to
trx_flush_log_if_needed_low() as well as to reinstate the function
innobase_active_small() did not restore the performance for the
case where sync_binlog=1 is set.

Therefore, we will revert the entire commit in MariaDB Server 10.2.
In MariaDB Server 10.5, adding a srv_inc_activity_count() call to
trx_flush_log_if_needed_low() did restore the performance, so we
will not revert MDEV-20638 across all versions.