Spinlock and starvation...

[aminer]

Hello,

Finally , i have read the following, and it says this:

"Starvation freedom is desirable, but not essential
�practical locks: many permit starvation, although it is unlikely to occur"

read here:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vs3/comp422/lecture-notes/comp422-lec19-s08-v1.pdf

So as you have just read , starvation is unlikely to occur with spinlock
eith backoff, so the probability is
very low that starvation occurs, so i will return back to the Spinlock
with exponential backoff inside my SemaMonitor and SemaCondvar cause it
has a decent performance.



Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

[aminer]

And look at the graph of the "Lock comparison" up to 80 cores
the test&set with an exponential backoff have a good performance,
so no need for an MCS queue Lock, so i will return back to
the SpinLock with an exponential backoff cause it has a good performance.

Here is the graph bellow on this PDF page:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~vs3/comp422/lecture-notes/comp422-lec19-s08-v1.pdf

Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.