diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/alloc_background.c b/fs/bcachefs/alloc_background.c
index b9b97cbda177..f2117084f2fe 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/alloc_background.c
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/alloc_background.c
@@ -1127,6 +1127,7 @@ static int bch2_allocator_thread(void *arg)
 		pr_debug("free_inc now empty");
 
 		do {
+			cond_resched();
 			/*
 			 * Find some buckets that we can invalidate, either
 			 * they're completely unused, or only contain clean data