> To forestall this scenario, I'm thinking of introducing backoff into the > sleep intervals --- that is, after first failure to get the spinlock, > sleep 10 msec; after the second, sleep 20 msec, then 40, etc, with a > maximum sleep time of maybe a second. The number of iterations would be > reduced so that we still time out after a minute's total delay.
After the first few sleeps should it add a random() element to the delay time?
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