I can't help but think of the classic XKCD example of breaking a user's workflow [1]. Doing research though a spinlock actually doesn't seem as unusual a hack

I can't help but think of the classic XKCD example of breaking a user's workflow [1]. Doing research though a spinlock actually doesn't seem as unusual a hack as it would first seem, do drivers and the like not have similar issues because they don't trigger a page fault I guess? [1] https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/