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

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [MTD] [MAPS] Remove MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() from ck804rom driver.
  [JFFS2] fix mount crash caused by removed nodes
  [JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better
  [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin async requires complex mappings
  [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin: fix memory leak in error path
  [MTD] [MAPS] physmap: fix wrong free and del_mtd_{partition,device}
  [MTD] slram: Handle negative devlength correctly
  [MTD] map_rom has NULL erase pointer
  [MTD] [LPDDR] qinfo_probe depends on lpddr

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 3cceef4ad2b..e9580104b6b 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -95,13 +95,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
 			
 
-		/* 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();
+		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
+		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
+		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
+		 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing.  Yield()
+		 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
+		 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
+		 * disk).
+		 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down.   Pulling an
+		 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
+		 * the GC thread get there first. */
+		schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
 
 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
 		 */