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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] rwsem: lighter active count checks when waking up readers
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Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> wrote:

> down_xxxx can increase the active count ...

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

David