>
> No delay. The lock/unlock operations provide more than enough delay.
> You can pack a fair number of normal instructions into a spinlock
> operation. If all you're doing is inserting an entry into a list,
> for example, that is an operation that could probably fit into on
> lock/unlock cycle.
I don't suppose you could point out some code that does this.
I'm having a hard time seeing where this would be put in.
I tried to find some books covering spin locks and similar things
but didn't get much at the local Barnes N Noble. Someone said
there were papers on it but I'd like something like a Stevens
book that had it covered.
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