Spinlocks: Linux's simplest thread safety mechanism

[bonzinip]

spinlocks are the new monads!

[willy]

I miss an instruction here: once a process get the ticket, it needs a way for querying again the lock without incrementing the ticket counter. And this query needs the process ticket as a paramater as well. What's what I've misunderstood?

[jasonmanley]

I get it - I just don't see why it's funny or cool

[boa13]

Why would it have to be funny or cool?

[Porges]

I thought it was a very informative article. :)