MCS locks and qspinlocks
MCS locks and qspinlocks
Posted Mar 12, 2014 13:05 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: MCS locks and qspinlocks by corbet
Parent article: MCS locks and qspinlocks
OK, but a spinlock can only block other CPUs once held, this kind of lock can block other CPUs before acquiring the lock simply by being next inline for the lock.
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