A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
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Is it required to use spin_lock inside tasklets?
As far as I know in interrupt handler, there is no need of synchronization technique. The interrupt handler cannot run concurrently. In short, the pre-emption is disabled in ISR. However, I have a doubt regarding tasklets. As per my knowledge,…
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Handling Parallel Jobs/Threads
I'm trying to refactoring my project and now I'm trying to research for best ways to increase the application's performance.
Question 1. SpinLock vs Interlocked
To creating a counter, which way has better performance.
Interlocked.increament(ref…
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Replace critical section with boost::detail::spinlock cause dead lock on windows
My platform is vs2010 win2003 server, I have an application working well. There is an integer protected by a critical section, when I modify and use boost::detail::spinlock instead then it goes to dead lock.
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