Github user aarondav commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/544#issuecomment-41351478
LGTM, the semantics and performance of this seem quite reasonable. The
synchronzied block should be virtually cost-less in normal operation, and I
trust java.concurrent's implementation of Semaphore.
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