[OpenAFS-devel] afs_osi_Sleep and afs_osi_Wakeup on Linux

[Derek Atkins]

A spurious wakeup is MUCH better than a lost wakeup, as you point out
the recovery method for spurious wakeups.

-derek

"Srikanth Vishwanathan" <vsrikanth@in.ibm.com> writes:

> > i know it would leak, but that didnt concern me a great deal.  at
> > shutdown you can just go through the hash table and free the memory.
> > the addition of afs_addevent() makes the behavior of the event code
> > slightly different from other platforms.  is that bad?  i dont know.
> 
> If afs_getevent() returns NULL, sleep will return prematurely. But this
> is no different from a spurious wakeup. The caller makes sure that sleep
> is called in a "while(condition not satisfied) sleep" loop that takes
> care of this.
> 
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