diff --git a/semaphore/semaphore.go b/semaphore/semaphore.go
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+// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package semaphore provides a weighted semaphore implementation.
+package semaphore // import "golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
+
+import (
+	"container/list"
+	"sync"
+
+	// Use the old context because packages that depend on this one
+	// (e.g. cloud.google.com/go/...) must run on Go 1.6.
+	// TODO(jba): update to "context" when possible.
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+)
+
+type waiter struct {
+	n     int64
+	ready chan<- struct{} // Closed when semaphore acquired.
+}
+
+// NewWeighted creates a new weighted semaphore with the given
+// maximum combined weight for concurrent access.
+func NewWeighted(n int64) *Weighted {
+	w := &Weighted{size: n}
+	return w
+}
+
+// Weighted provides a way to bound concurrent access to a resource.
+// The callers can request access with a given weight.
+type Weighted struct {
+	size    int64
+	cur     int64
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	waiters list.List
+}
+
+// Acquire acquires the semaphore with a weight of n, blocking only until ctx
+// is done. On success, returns nil. On failure, returns ctx.Err() and leaves
+// the semaphore unchanged.
+//
+// If ctx is already done, Acquire may still succeed without blocking.
+func (s *Weighted) Acquire(ctx context.Context, n int64) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	if s.size-s.cur >= n && s.waiters.Len() == 0 {
+		s.cur += n
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if n > s.size {
+		// Don't make other Acquire calls block on one that's doomed to fail.
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		<-ctx.Done()
+		return ctx.Err()
+	}
+
+	ready := make(chan struct{})
+	w := waiter{n: n, ready: ready}
+	elem := s.waiters.PushBack(w)
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		err := ctx.Err()
+		s.mu.Lock()
+		select {
+		case <-ready:
+			// Acquired the semaphore after we were canceled.  Rather than trying to
+			// fix up the queue, just pretend we didn't notice the cancelation.
+			err = nil
+		default:
+			s.waiters.Remove(elem)
+		}
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		return err
+
+	case <-ready:
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TryAcquire acquires the semaphore with a weight of n without blocking.
+// On success, returns true. On failure, returns false and leaves the semaphore unchanged.
+func (s *Weighted) TryAcquire(n int64) bool {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	success := s.size-s.cur >= n && s.waiters.Len() == 0
+	if success {
+		s.cur += n
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	return success
+}
+
+// Release releases the semaphore with a weight of n.
+func (s *Weighted) Release(n int64) {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.cur -= n
+	if s.cur < 0 {
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		panic("semaphore: bad release")
+	}
+	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)
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+}
diff --git a/semaphore/semaphore_bench_test.go b/semaphore/semaphore_bench_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5bb2fb3
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+++ b/semaphore/semaphore_bench_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// +build go1.7
+
+package semaphore
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+)
+
+// weighted is an interface matching a subset of *Weighted.  It allows
+// alternate implementations for testing and benchmarking.
+type weighted interface {
+	Acquire(context.Context, int64) error
+	TryAcquire(int64) bool
+	Release(int64)
+}
+
+// semChan implements Weighted using a channel for
+// comparing against the condition variable-based implementation.
+type semChan chan struct{}
+
+func newSemChan(n int64) semChan {
+	return semChan(make(chan struct{}, n))
+}
+
+func (s semChan) Acquire(_ context.Context, n int64) error {
+	for i := int64(0); i < n; i++ {
+		s <- struct{}{}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (s semChan) TryAcquire(n int64) bool {
+	if int64(len(s))+n > int64(cap(s)) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	for i := int64(0); i < n; i++ {
+		s <- struct{}{}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func (s semChan) Release(n int64) {
+	for i := int64(0); i < n; i++ {
+		<-s
+	}
+}
+
+// acquireN calls Acquire(size) on sem N times and then calls Release(size) N times.
+func acquireN(b *testing.B, sem weighted, size int64, N int) {
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		for j := 0; j < N; j++ {
+			sem.Acquire(context.Background(), size)
+		}
+		for j := 0; j < N; j++ {
+			sem.Release(size)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// tryAcquireN calls TryAcquire(size) on sem N times and then calls Release(size) N times.
+func tryAcquireN(b *testing.B, sem weighted, size int64, N int) {
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		for j := 0; j < N; j++ {
+			if !sem.TryAcquire(size) {
+				b.Fatalf("TryAcquire(%v) = false, want true", size)
+			}
+		}
+		for j := 0; j < N; j++ {
+			sem.Release(size)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkNewSeq(b *testing.B) {
+	for _, cap := range []int64{1, 128} {
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("Weighted-%d", cap), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				_ = NewWeighted(cap)
+			}
+		})
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("semChan-%d", cap), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				_ = newSemChan(cap)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkAcquireSeq(b *testing.B) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		cap, size int64
+		N         int
+	}{
+		{1, 1, 1},
+		{2, 1, 1},
+		{16, 1, 1},
+		{128, 1, 1},
+		{2, 2, 1},
+		{16, 2, 8},
+		{128, 2, 64},
+		{2, 1, 2},
+		{16, 8, 2},
+		{128, 64, 2},
+	} {
+		for _, w := range []struct {
+			name string
+			w    weighted
+		}{
+			{"Weighted", NewWeighted(c.cap)},
+			{"semChan", newSemChan(c.cap)},
+		} {
+			b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s-acquire-%d-%d-%d", w.name, c.cap, c.size, c.N), func(b *testing.B) {
+				acquireN(b, w.w, c.size, c.N)
+			})
+			b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s-tryAcquire-%d-%d-%d", w.name, c.cap, c.size, c.N), func(b *testing.B) {
+				tryAcquireN(b, w.w, c.size, c.N)
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/semaphore/semaphore_test.go b/semaphore/semaphore_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad35dc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/semaphore/semaphore_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package semaphore
+
+import (
+	"math/rand"
+	"runtime"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
+)
+
+const maxSleep = 1 * time.Millisecond
+
+func HammerWeighted(sem *Weighted, n int64, loops int) {
+	for i := 0; i < loops; i++ {
+		sem.Acquire(context.Background(), n)
+		time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Int63n(int64(maxSleep/time.Nanosecond))) * time.Nanosecond)
+		sem.Release(n)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWeighted(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	n := runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0)
+	sem := NewWeighted(int64(n))
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(n)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			HammerWeighted(sem, int64(i), 1000)
+		}()
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
+func TestWeightedPanic(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	defer func() {
+		if recover() == nil {
+			t.Fatal("release of an unacquired weighted semaphore did not panic")
+		}
+	}()
+	w := NewWeighted(1)
+	w.Release(1)
+}
+
+func TestWeightedTryAcquire(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	sem := NewWeighted(2)
+	tries := []bool{}
+	sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+	tries = append(tries, sem.TryAcquire(1))
+	tries = append(tries, sem.TryAcquire(1))
+
+	sem.Release(2)
+
+	tries = append(tries, sem.TryAcquire(1))
+	sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+	tries = append(tries, sem.TryAcquire(1))
+
+	want := []bool{true, false, true, false}
+	for i := range tries {
+		if tries[i] != want[i] {
+			t.Errorf("tries[%d]: got %t, want %t", i, tries[i], want[i])
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWeightedAcquire(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	sem := NewWeighted(2)
+	tryAcquire := func(n int64) bool {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 10*time.Millisecond)
+		defer cancel()
+		return sem.Acquire(ctx, n) == nil
+	}
+
+	tries := []bool{}
+	sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+	tries = append(tries, tryAcquire(1))
+	tries = append(tries, tryAcquire(1))
+
+	sem.Release(2)
+
+	tries = append(tries, tryAcquire(1))
+	sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+	tries = append(tries, tryAcquire(1))
+
+	want := []bool{true, false, true, false}
+	for i := range tries {
+		if tries[i] != want[i] {
+			t.Errorf("tries[%d]: got %t, want %t", i, tries[i], want[i])
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWeightedDoesntBlockIfTooBig(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const n = 2
+	sem := NewWeighted(n)
+	{
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+		defer cancel()
+		go sem.Acquire(ctx, n+1)
+	}
+
+	g, ctx := errgroup.WithContext(context.Background())
+	for i := n * 3; i > 0; i-- {
+		g.Go(func() error {
+			err := sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+			if err == nil {
+				time.Sleep(1 * time.Millisecond)
+				sem.Release(1)
+			}
+			return err
+		})
+	}
+	if err := g.Wait(); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("NewWeighted(%v) failed to AcquireCtx(_, 1) with AcquireCtx(_, %v) pending", n, n+1)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLargeAcquireDoesntStarve times out if a large call to Acquire starves.
+// Merely returning from the test function indicates success.
+func TestLargeAcquireDoesntStarve(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	n := int64(runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0))
+	sem := NewWeighted(n)
+	running := true
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(int(n))
+	for i := n; i > 0; i-- {
+		sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+		go func() {
+			defer func() {
+				sem.Release(1)
+				wg.Done()
+			}()
+			for running {
+				time.Sleep(1 * time.Millisecond)
+				sem.Release(1)
+				sem.Acquire(ctx, 1)
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+
+	sem.Acquire(ctx, n)
+	running = false
+	sem.Release(n)
+	wg.Wait()
+}