On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 25 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Erm... Jens, it really should be
> >     if (atomic_dec_and_test(...))
> >             up(...);
> > not just
> >     atomic_dec(...);
> >     up(...);
> > 
> > Otherwise you can end up with too early exit of loop_thread. Normally
> > it would not matter, but in pathological cases...
> 
> How so? We dec it and up the semaphore, loop_thread runs until it's
> done and ups lo_sem.

You are risking an extra up() here. Think what happens if you already had a
pending request.


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