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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Linus's rant about spinlocks in userspace: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189752 https://www.
by MichaEiler 5y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Linus's rant about spinlocks in userspace: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189752 https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
- thunkshift1 5y agoThere should be site like linus-rants.com
- rigtorp 5y agoHis 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.