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...

Spinlock is a technology based company specialized in the manufacture and development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance...

(critical section) on uniprocessor systems; spinlocks, which prevent, in multiprocessor systems, spinlocking-thread from being preempted; dynamic dispatchers[citation...

strategy in certain circumstances, most notably in the implementation of spinlocks within operating systems designed to run on SMP systems. The following...

is a synchronization mechanism, or locking algorithm, that is a type of spinlock that uses "tickets" to control which thread of execution is allowed to...

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...

a part of artillery fuze mechanism which arms the munition upon firing Spinlock, a concept in multithread programming This disambiguation page lists articles...

become ready to run after being blocked in a particular situation, then spinlocks are an acceptable solution (for that situation only).[citation needed]...

A spinlock adjustable dumbbell...

list_head lp; 2 struct list_head lp; 3 long key; 3 long key; 4 spinlock_t mutex; 4 spinlock_t mutex; 5 int data; 5 int data; 6 /* Other data fields */ 6...