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diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 6eb3daebd563..888f236e5494 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -99,7 +99,13 @@ 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.
*/