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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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become ready to run after being blocked in a particular situation, then spinlocks are an acceptable solution (for that situation only).[citation needed]...
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includes two more lightweight mutual exclusion solutions—latches and spinlocks—which are less robust than locks but are less resource intensive. SQL...
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inactive (used with floating-point unit) 0x9B XCHG Exchange data r :=: r/m; A spinlock typically uses xchg as an atomic operation. (coma bug). 0x86, 0x87, 0x91...
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though more permanent fixings are available. Other variations include spinlock end bars with screw on nut collars and many others. The thickness of the...
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original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2016. "Bodymax 6 ft Standard Spinlock Barbell with collars". Powerhouse Fitness. Archived from the original on...
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variables Synchronization between threads using read write locks and barriers Spinlocks The POSIX semaphore API works with POSIX threads but is not part of the...
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progress. Hence, if two threads can contend for the same mutex lock or spinlock, then the algorithm is not lock-free. (If we suspend one thread that holds...
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control. They are used for testing CPUs, for example, when overclocking. Spinlock in a poorly written program may cause similar symptoms, if it lasts sufficiently...
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types (which can only be manipulated by a set of specific operators), spinlocks, semaphores, mutexes,: 176–198 and lockless algorithms (e.g., RCUs)....
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parallelism while eliminating, to the greatest degree possible, the "disabled spinlocks" which had been employed in earlier IBM operating systems. Similarly,...
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On multi-processor systems, the thread may instead poll the mutex in a spinlock. Both of these may sap performance and force processors in symmetric multiprocessing...
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debugger is slow enough to make the read race occur always. Synchronization Spinlock fast reader/writer lock for gettimeofday 2.5.30 Effective synchronisation...
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lower precision timer implements atomic and atomic64 operation implements spinlock, mutex, event, semaphore, thread and thread pool implements file, socket...
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Infinite loop (section Spinlocks)
user to either respond to a prompt to continue, or reset the device. Spinlocks are low-level synchronization mechanisms used in concurrent programming...
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requesting the lock until it is allowed to access the locked resource. With a spinlock, the thread simply waits ("spins") until the lock becomes available. This...
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preemptively scheduled threads, and synchronization constructs including spinlocks and atomic operations are unnecessary when writing fibered code, as they...
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information, checking that programs are not allowed to deadlock, so any held spinlocks must be released and only one lock can be held at a time to avoid deadlocks...
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also when the return prediction stack underflows. The latency for the spinlock PAUSE instruction has been increased dramatically (from the usual 10 cycles...
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include Thermo Fisher Scientific, Magritek, Oxford Instruments, Bruker, Spinlock SRL, General Electric, JEOL, Kimble Chase, Philips, Siemens AG, and formerly...
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"Remote Operation Clutches & Jammers – Hardware Support – Support". www.spinlock.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2017. "New specifications on Volvo Ocean Race's...
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