On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:15:03 +0530, Rohan Puri said: > See basic difference between mutex and spinlock is, the former puts the > thread waiting on the lock to sleep and later does a busy wait.
> Since the nth bit is set every X ms, I think sleeping and waking up would > turn out to be costly operations/overhead so no mutex. Spinlock would be > good enough here. Depends on the value of X and the amount of contention. It's quite possible to lock up an entire CPU or even more for a considerable amount of ms out of every X using a spinlock.
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