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Re:Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks by xtacy on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:09AM (#21955625)
Aren't most modern spinlock implementations are ticket-based, which ensures fairness among waiters (FIFO-like)? The linux kernel implementations most definitely are.

I agree that the naive implementations are not.

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Re:Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks by temac on Saturday January 04, 2020 @04:25PM (#21957687)
Completely fair locks can have extremely terrible throughput performance, so depending what you are doing with them, they might not be a good idea...
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