In computer science and software engineering, busy-waiting, busy-looping or spinning is a technique in which a process repeatedly checks to see if a condition...

as busy waiting, this is generally not as efficient as the alternative to polling, interrupt-driven I/O. In a simple single-purpose system, even busy-wait...

enough. Threads attempting an operation may need to wait until some condition P holds true. A busy waiting loop while not ( P ) do skip will not work, as mutual...

The busy signal has become less common in the past few decades due to the prevalence of call waiting and voicemail. An otherwise unspecified busy signal...

:= (r + 1) mod k; goto L; The Lamport solution uses busy waiting in the thread instead of waiting in the scheduler. This solution neglects the impact...

graciously waiting), or P1 is at label P1_gate (trying to enter its critical section, after setting flag[1] to true but before setting turn to 0 and busy waiting)...

limited to two processes and makes use of busy waiting instead of process suspension. (The use of busy waiting suggests that processes should spend a minimum...

system. A more elegant method for achieving mutual exclusion is the busy-wait. Busy-waiting is effective for both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems....

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 are explicitly...

functions. These functions are needed by some drivers to wait for hardware. Note that a busy waiting technique is used, so the kernel is effectively blocked...