-
spinlocks are
efficient if
threads are
likely to be
blocked for only
short periods. For this reason, operating-system
kernels often use
spinlocks. However...
- (critical section) on
uniprocessor systems;
spinlocks,
which prevent, in
multiprocessor systems,
spinlocking-thread from
being preempted;
dynamic dispatchers[citation...
- user to
either respond to a
prompt to continue, or
reset the device.
Spinlocks are low-level
synchronization mechanisms used in
concurrent programming...
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strategy in
certain cir****stances, most
notably in the
implementation of
spinlocks within operating systems designed to run on SMP systems. The following...
-
includes two more
lightweight mutual exclusion solutions—latches and
spinlocks—which are less
robust than
locks but are less
resource intensive. SQL...
-
Ticket spinlocks,
Linux W****ly News,
February 6, 2008.
Retrieved 23. July, 2010.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge, paravirt:
introduce a "lock-byte"
spinlock implementation...
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variables Synchronization between threads using read
write locks and
barriers Spinlocks The
POSIX semap**** API
works with
POSIX threads but is not part of the...
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types (which can only be mani****ted by a set of
specific operators),
spinlocks, semap****s, mutexes,: 176–198 and
lockless algorithms (e.g., RCUs)....
-
parallelism while eliminating, to the
greatest degree possible, the "disabled
spinlocks"
which had been emplo**** in
earlier IBM
operating systems. Similarly,...
- the
dumbbell and
secured with
clips or collars.
Shown to the
right is a "
spinlock" dumbbell,
whose ends are
threaded to
accept large nuts as collars. Alternatively...
