Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [JFFS2] print a message when marking bad block
  [JFFS2] Check for all-zero node headers
  [MTD] [OneNAND] Classify the page data and oob buffer
  [MTD] [OneNAND] Exit the loop when transferring/filling of the oob is finished
  [MTD] [OneNAND] add Nokia Copyright and a credit
  [MTD] [OneNAND] Fix typo & wrong comments
  [MTD] [OneNAND] Use oob buffer instead of main one in oob functions
  [MTD] Correct partition failed erase address
  [JFFS2] Use yield() between GC passes in background thread.
  [MTD] [NAND] Correct misspelled preprocessor variable.
  [MTD] [MAPS] dilnetpc: Fix printk warning
  [MTD] [NOR] Fix oops in cfi_amdstd_sync
  [MTD] ESB2 check for closed ROM window
  [JFFS2] Fix writebuffer recovery in the first page of a block
  [MTD] [NAND] make oobavail public

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 6eb3dae..888f236 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.
 		 */