diff --git a/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.cpp b/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.cpp
index a55de95..9ff59ef 100644
--- a/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.cpp
+++ b/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.cpp
@@ -175,14 +175,13 @@
 
 void ShaderCache::saveToDiskLocked() {
     ATRACE_NAME("ShaderCache::saveToDiskLocked");
-    if (mInitialized && mBlobCache && mSavePending) {
+    if (mInitialized && mBlobCache) {
         if (mIDHash.size()) {
             auto key = sIDKey;
             set(mBlobCache.get(), &key, sizeof(key), mIDHash.data(), mIDHash.size());
         }
         mBlobCache->writeToFile();
     }
-    mSavePending = false;
 }
 
 void ShaderCache::store(const SkData& key, const SkData& data, const SkString& /*description*/) {
@@ -225,10 +224,10 @@
     }
     set(bc, key.data(), keySize, value, valueSize);
 
-    if (!mSavePending && mDeferredSaveDelay > 0) {
+    if (!mSavePending && mDeferredSaveDelayMs > 0) {
         mSavePending = true;
         std::thread deferredSaveThread([this]() {
-            sleep(mDeferredSaveDelay);
+            usleep(mDeferredSaveDelayMs * 1000);  // milliseconds to microseconds
             std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mMutex);
             // Store file on disk if there a new shader or Vulkan pipeline cache size changed.
             if (mCacheDirty || mNewPipelineCacheSize != mOldPipelineCacheSize) {
@@ -237,6 +236,7 @@
                 mTryToStorePipelineCache = false;
                 mCacheDirty = false;
             }
+            mSavePending = false;
         });
         deferredSaveThread.detach();
     }
diff --git a/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.h b/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.h
index bc35fa5f..f5506d6 100644
--- a/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.h
+++ b/libs/hwui/pipeline/skia/ShaderCache.h
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@
      * pending.  Each time a key/value pair is inserted into the cache via
      * load, a deferred save is initiated if one is not already pending.
      * This will wait some amount of time and then trigger a save of the cache
-     * contents to disk.
+     * contents to disk, unless mDeferredSaveDelayMs is 0 in which case saving
+     * is disabled.
      */
     bool mSavePending = false;
 
@@ -166,9 +167,11 @@
     size_t mObservedBlobValueSize = 20 * 1024;
 
     /**
-     *  The time in seconds to wait before saving newly inserted cache entries.
+     *  The time in milliseconds to wait before saving newly inserted cache entries.
+     *
+     *  WARNING: setting this to 0 will disable writing the cache to disk.
      */
-    unsigned int mDeferredSaveDelay = 4;
+    unsigned int mDeferredSaveDelayMs = 4 * 1000;
 
     /**
      * "mMutex" is the mutex used to prevent concurrent access to the member