diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_breadcrumbs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_breadcrumbs.c
index 308c56a021abb5f4a3634e665e2161444016951c..9ccbf26124c6169d2e35a6e915c3da09845ba269 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_breadcrumbs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_breadcrumbs.c
@@ -580,6 +580,8 @@ static int intel_breadcrumbs_signaler(void *arg)
 	signaler_set_rtpriority();
 
 	do {
+		bool do_schedule = true;
+
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 		/* We are either woken up by the interrupt bottom-half,
@@ -626,7 +628,18 @@ static int intel_breadcrumbs_signaler(void *arg)
 			spin_unlock_irq(&b->rb_lock);
 
 			i915_gem_request_put(request);
-		} else {
+
+			/* If the engine is saturated we may be continually
+			 * processing completed requests. This angers the
+			 * NMI watchdog if we never let anything else
+			 * have access to the CPU. Let's pretend to be nice
+			 * and relinquish the CPU if we burn through the
+			 * entire RT timeslice!
+			 */
+			do_schedule = need_resched();
+		}
+
+		if (unlikely(do_schedule)) {
 			DEFINE_WAIT(exec);
 
 			if (kthread_should_park())