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by MichaEiler 1820 days ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Linus's rant about spinlocks in userspace: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
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rigtorp 1816 days ago
His rant only applies to preemptible threads. If you don't have preemptible threads spinlocks works great. The linux kernel uses them in non-preemptible contexts.
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thunkshift1 1819 days ago
There should be site like linus-rants.com
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