Re: [PATCH 03/10] rwsem: lighter active count checks when waking up readers

From: David Howells
Date: Fri May 21 2010 - 04:07:21 EST

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Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> down_xxxx can increase the active count ...

Not so much can, as does... Perhaps you need to qualify that.

David
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