On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:27 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Trouble is, if you wait on Latch X and other processes send wakeup
> > assuming you were waiting on Latch Y, then this will erroneously wake
> > you up.
>
> The signal will wake up the process, but WaitLatch will quickly go back
> to sleep if it wasn't for the latch we're waiting for. I don't think
> that causes any meaningful performance issues.
Neither does polling.
> So that's all handled within the latch code.
I'll adjust the comment.
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