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Spinlock

In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking… 
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2020
2020
On the Analysis of Parallel Real-Time Tasks With Spin Locks
Locking protocol is an essential component in resource management of real-time systems, which coordinates mutually exclusive… 
2014
2014
Per Processor Spin-Lock Priority for Partitioned Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
Embedded systems are typically resource constrained, i.e., resources such as processors, I/O devices, shared buffers or shared… 
2012
2012
ANOLE: A Profiling-Driven Adaptive Lock Waiter Detection Scheme for Efficient MP-guest Scheduling
In today's data center, there is a growing virtualization evolving trend to consolidate multiple servers into a single physical… 
2001
2001
Preemption concepts , Rhealstone Benchmark and scheduler analysis of Linux 2 . 4 Arnd
In this paper we examine the soft realtime capabilities of the Linux kernel 2.4 and realtime enhancements. We discuss and… 
1995
1995
Recoverable user-level mutual exclusion
Mutual exclusion primitives based on user-level atomic instructions (often called spin locks) have proven to be much more… 
1995
1995
Real-time scalability of nested spin locks
When a real-time system is realized on a shared-memory multiprocessor, the worst-case performance of interprocessor… 
1994
1994
Predictable spin lock algorithms with preemption
Both predictable interprocessor synchronization and fast interrupt response are required for real-time systems constructed using… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Queuing spin lock algorithms to support timing predictability
  • Travis S. Craig
  • Proceedings Real-Time Systems Symposium
  • 1993
  • Corpus ID: 2059726
We introduce practical new algorithms for FIFO and priority-ordered spin locks on shared-memory multiprocessors with an atomic… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
An improved method for two-dimensional heteronuclear relayed-coherence-transfer NMR spectroscopy
1978
1978
Modeling spin locks with queuing networks
Modern multiprogramming, multiprocessing operating systems encounter a common problem: multiple parallel processes (perhaps being… 
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