in semaphore/semaphore.go [109:136]
func (s *Weighted) notifyWaiters() {
for {
next := s.waiters.Front()
if next == nil {
break // No more waiters blocked.
}
w := next.Value.(waiter)
if s.size-s.cur < w.n {
// Not enough tokens for the next waiter. We could keep going (to try to
// find a waiter with a smaller request), but under load that could cause
// starvation for large requests; instead, we leave all remaining waiters
// blocked.
//
// Consider a semaphore used as a read-write lock, with N tokens, N
// readers, and one writer. Each reader can Acquire(1) to obtain a read
// lock. The writer can Acquire(N) to obtain a write lock, excluding all
// of the readers. If we allow the readers to jump ahead in the queue,
// the writer will starve — there is always one token available for every
// reader.
break
}
s.cur += w.n
s.waiters.Remove(next)
close(w.ready)
}
}