1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 6eb3daebd563..0c82dfcfd246 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 /*
  * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright © 2001-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
  *
  * For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
  *
- * $Id: background.c,v 1.54 2005/05/20 21:37:12 gleixner Exp $
- *
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -99,7 +97,13 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
                 if (try_to_freeze())
                         continue;
 
-                cond_resched();
+                /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when
+                   other things could be running, it actually makes things a
+                   lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue
+                   every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in
+                   with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread
+                   get there first. */
+                yield();
 
                 /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
                  */