On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Austin Schuh wrote: > I think I might have an answer for my own question, but I would > appreciate someone else to double check. If list_empty erroneously > returns that there is work to do when there isn't work to do, we wake > up an extra worker which then goes back to sleep. Not a big loss. If > list_empty erroneously returns that there isn't work to do when there > is, this should only be because someone is modifying the work list. > When they finish, as far as I can tell, all callers then check to see > if a worker needs to be started up, and start one.
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