Define busy waiting and spinlock, Operating System

Assignment Help:

Define busy waiting and spinlock.

When a process is in its significant section, any other process that tries to enter its critical section must loop continuously in the entry code. This is called as busy waiting and this type of semaphore is also called a spinlock, due to the process while waiting for the lock..

Related Discussions:- Define busy waiting and spinlock

What is an operating system process, What is an operating system process? H...

What is an operating system process? How is it different from a program? Why do we need the concept of a process, rather than simply talk about programs running in memory? The e

Competing process, describe competing process

describe competing process

Example of producer consumer - semaphore, Now let's implement bounded produ...

Now let's implement bounded producer-consumer with semaphores, a Coke machine which is initially empty: semaphore sem_mutex = 1 // binary semaphore for mutual exclusion, 1==unlo

What is the main advantage of multiprogramming, What is the main advantage ...

What is the main advantage of multiprogramming? Multiprogramming makes efficient use of the CPU by overlapping the demands for the CPU and its I/O devices from various users. I

State the advantage of multiprocessor system, State the advantage of multip...

State the advantage of multiprocessor system? The advantages of multiprocessor system are:- a) Enhanced throughput. b) Economy of scale. c) Enhanced re

Convert the hex to binary, Convert the following from hex to binary and dra...

Convert the following from hex to binary and draw it on the memory map. RAM = 0000 -> 00FF EPROM = FF00 -> FFFF Answer: 0000 0000 0000 0000 (0) RAM sta

Compare user threads and kernel threads, Compare user threads and kernel th...

Compare user threads and kernel threads. User threads:- User threads are supported above the kernel and are executed by a thread library at the user level. Thread creation

What do you mean by system calls, What do you mean by system calls? Sys...

What do you mean by system calls? System calls give the interface among a process and the operating system. When a system call is implemented, it is treated as by the hardware

Explain variable partitioning in memory management, VARIABLE PARTITIONING ...

VARIABLE PARTITIONING We can differ the partitions and change the location according to the size of the process. 50k 40k

Explain and differentiate programmed and interrupt i/o, Question 1 Explain...

Question 1 Explain the structure of operating system in detail Question 2 Explain the following scheduling algorithm 1) First come Firs

Write Your Message!

Name

Email id

Message

Verfication Code

User Account

All Pages