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[JFFS2] Disable summary after wbuf recovery
[linux-2.6] / fs / jffs2 / background.c
index ff2a872e80e78677de43baaf8acc758299106ec0..888f236e54948a77fdfd26736a80a1ffd99a35f7 100644 (file)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
 #include "nodelist.h"
 
 
@@ -98,7 +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.
                 */