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0 pointsxtacy6y ago0 comments

Aren't most modern spinlock implementations are ticket-based, which ensures fairness among waiters (FIFO-like)? The linux kernel implementations most definitely are.

I agree that the naive implementations are not.

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temac6y ago

Completely fair locks can have extremely terrible throughput performance, so depending what you are doing with them, they might not be a good idea...

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0 pointsxtacy6y ago0 comments

Aren't most modern spinlock implementations are ticket-based, which ensures fairness among waiters (FIFO-like)? The linux kernel implementations most definitely are.

I agree that the naive implementations are not.

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temac6y ago

Completely fair locks can have extremely terrible throughput performance, so depending what you are doing with them, they might not be a good idea...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse