Index: 2.4.x-xfs/fs/buffer.c
===================================================================
--- 2.4.x-xfs.orig/fs/buffer.c	Fri May 28 13:32:47 2004
+++ 2.4.x-xfs/fs/buffer.c	Fri May 28 13:33:58 2004
@@ -789,9 +789,9 @@
 {
 	balance_dirty();
 	wakeup_bdflush();
+	yield();
 	try_to_free_pages(GFP_NOIO);
 	run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
-	yield();
 }
 
 void init_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, bh_end_io_t *handler, void *private)