STABLE14-rx-tq-waiter-rework-20050914

STABLE14-rx-tq-waiter-rework-20050914

heavily reworked by jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
and then a little further editing by me

see if we can avoid doing to sleep forever waiting on the tq to flush

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do not decrement tqWaiters in the while evaluation.   This will
result in an invalid count if the value was zero to begin with.

(cherry picked from commit b08017e91f5b4d175b5c9b1f6d68adb9effa3360)