CSC/ECE 506 Spring 2010/Ch 9/Synchronization: Difference between revisions
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Hardware implementations for synchronization traditionally include locks, barriers, and mutual exclusion. | Hardware implementations for synchronization traditionally include locks, barriers, and mutual exclusion. These types of hardware synchronizations use a method called busy-waiting, or spinning in order to continuously check if a thread can access shared variables. | ||
===OS Implementations=== | ===OS Implementations=== | ||
Revision as of 04:10, 12 April 2010
Hardware Support For Synchronization
Hardware Implementations
Hardware implementations for synchronization traditionally include locks, barriers, and mutual exclusion. These types of hardware synchronizations use a method called busy-waiting, or spinning in order to continuously check if a thread can access shared variables.