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...
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a part of artillery fuze mechanism which arms the munition upon firing Spinlock, a concept in multithread programming This disambiguation page lists articles...
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strategy in certain circumstances, most notably in the implementation of spinlocks within operating systems designed to run on SMP systems. The following...
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Spinlock is a technology based company specialized in the manufacture and development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance...
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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...
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Synchronization (computer science) (section Spinlock)
(critical section) on uniprocessor systems; spinlocks, which prevent, in multiprocessor systems, spinlocking-thread from being preempted; dynamic dispatchers[citation...
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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...
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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...
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otherwise the while-loop spins waiting to acquire the lock. This is called a spinlock. At any point, the holder of the lock can simply set the memory location...
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