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MCS lock: a standalone construct

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a queue-based spin lock in which each waiting processor spins on its own local flag, avoiding contention on shared multiprocessor memory.

In operating systems, MCS lock refers to a queue-based spin lock in which each waiting processor spins on its own local flag, avoiding contention on shared multiprocessor memory. This meaning comes from Mellor-Crummey (1991) in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.[1]

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References

Mellor-Crummey, J. M., & Scott, M. L. (1991). Algorithms for scalable synchronization on shared-memory multiprocessors. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9(1), 21-65. https://doi.org/10.1145/103727.103729

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