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by xtacy 2359 days ago
Yep, that's the underlying principle behind Mellor-Crummey Spinlock: https://lwn.net/Articles/590243/.
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elteto 2359 days ago
Yes! The MCS spinlock, the name eluded me. The paper is actually a pretty good read (it is linked in the lwn article).
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