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Spinlock

In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock that causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking whether the lock is available. Since the thread remains active but is not performing a useful task, the use of such a lock is a kind of busy waiting. Once acquired, spinlocks will usually be held until they…

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Spinlock

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples48
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Spinlock

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related to External links · 36
Spinlock → Access, Algorithms, AndersonPaper, Chapter, Concurrency KitArticle, Dijkstra Prize, Distributed Computing, EditionVariety, Example, Gert BoddaertArticle Spin Lock, IEEE Std, Implementations, IPC, JavaPaper, Jeffrey RichterAustria, John, Locks, Mellor-Crummey, Michael, Operating Systems
related to Alternatives · 8
Spinlock → CPU, Do, In, Spinlocks, Switch, The, There, This
related to Example implementation · 3
Spinlock → Intel, It, The
is a · 1
Spinlock → lock that causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop

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lock thread spinlocks threads waiting use implementation acquire may atomic locks however language memory systems trying holds holding example x86

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Spinlockis alock that causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop0.90text
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesThe0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesThere0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesDo0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesIn0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesCPU0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesSwitch0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesThis0.60section
Spinlockrelated to AlternativesSpinlocks0.60section
Spinlockrelated to Example implementationThe0.60section
Spinlockrelated to Example implementationIt0.60section
Spinlockrelated to Example implementationIntel0.60section

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