diff --git a/core/jni/Android.mk b/core/jni/Android.mk
index 5fcde8b5bc4e6..70e90044f3c74 100644
--- a/core/jni/Android.mk
+++ b/core/jni/Android.mk
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ ifneq ($(ENABLE_CPUSETS),)
     LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DENABLE_CPUSETS
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(ENABLE_SCHED_BOOST),)
-    LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DENABLE_SCHED_BOOST
-endif
-
 LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DGL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES -DEGL_EGLEXT_PROTOTYPES
 
 LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0
diff --git a/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp b/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
index 894e1047e1aeb..da059e3bfe679 100644
--- a/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
+++ b/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
@@ -153,6 +154,24 @@ static void SetSigChldHandler() {
   }
 }
 
+// Resets nice priority for zygote process. Zygote priority can be set
+// to high value during boot phase to speed it up. We want to ensure
+// zygote is running at normal priority before childs are forked from it.
+//
+// This ends up being called repeatedly before each fork(), but there's
+// no real harm in that.
+static void ResetNicePriority(JNIEnv* env) {
+  errno = 0;
+  int prio = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0);
+  if (prio == -1 && errno != 0) {
+    ALOGW("getpriority failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+  }
+  if (prio != 0 && setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 0) != 0) {
+    ALOGE("setpriority(%d, 0, 0) failed: %s", PRIO_PROCESS, strerror(errno));
+    RuntimeAbort(env, __LINE__, "setpriority failed");
+  }
+}
+
 // Sets the SIGCHLD handler back to default behavior in zygote children.
 static void UnsetSigChldHandler() {
   struct sigaction sa;
@@ -418,27 +437,6 @@ void SetThreadName(const char* thread_name) {
   }
 }
 
-#ifdef ENABLE_SCHED_BOOST
-static void SetForkLoad(bool boost) {
-  // set scheduler knob to boost forked processes
-  pid_t currentPid = getpid();
-  // fits at most "/proc/XXXXXXX/sched_init_task_load\0"
-  char schedPath[35];
-  snprintf(schedPath, sizeof(schedPath), "/proc/%u/sched_init_task_load", currentPid);
-  int schedBoostFile = open(schedPath, O_WRONLY);
-  if (schedBoostFile < 0) {
-    ALOGW("Unable to set zygote scheduler boost");
-    return;
-  }
-  if (boost) {
-    write(schedBoostFile, "100\0", 4);
-  } else {
-    write(schedBoostFile, "0\0", 2);
-  }
-  close(schedBoostFile);
-}
-#endif
-
 // The list of open zygote file descriptors.
 static FileDescriptorTable* gOpenFdTable = NULL;
 
@@ -452,10 +450,6 @@ static pid_t ForkAndSpecializeCommon(JNIEnv* env, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, jintArra
                                      jstring instructionSet, jstring dataDir) {
   SetSigChldHandler();
 
-#ifdef ENABLE_SCHED_BOOST
-  SetForkLoad(true);
-#endif
-
   sigset_t sigchld;
   sigemptyset(&sigchld);
   sigaddset(&sigchld, SIGCHLD);
@@ -486,6 +480,8 @@ static pid_t ForkAndSpecializeCommon(JNIEnv* env, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, jintArra
     RuntimeAbort(env, __LINE__, "Unable to restat file descriptor table.");
   }
 
+  ResetNicePriority(env);
+
   pid_t pid = fork();
 
   if (pid == 0) {
@@ -634,11 +630,6 @@ static pid_t ForkAndSpecializeCommon(JNIEnv* env, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, jintArra
   } else if (pid > 0) {
     // the parent process
 
-#ifdef ENABLE_SCHED_BOOST
-    // unset scheduler knob
-    SetForkLoad(false);
-#endif
-
     // We blocked SIGCHLD prior to a fork, we unblock it here.
     if (sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigchld, nullptr) == -1) {
       ALOGE("sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, { SIGCHLD }) failed: %s", strerror(errno));
@@ -774,4 +765,3 @@ int register_com_android_internal_os_Zygote(JNIEnv* env) {
   return RegisterMethodsOrDie(env, "com/android/internal/os/Zygote", gMethods, NELEM(gMethods));
 }
 }  // namespace android
-