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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by speedplane on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:13AM (#17787147)
Don’t see the fundamental difference between locks and queues. In a system that uses locks, the kernel can still internally use queues to grant some lock requests before others.
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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by CodeWriter23 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:56AM (#17787386)
The fundamental difference is this. With locking, when a thread’s time slice expires while holding a lock, the dispatcher switches to a different thread and no other thread can gain that particular lock until the dispatcher resumes the thread holding the lock.

No locks means this can never happen.

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