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Basics of Futexes
The futex (short for "Fast userspace mutex") mechanism was proposed by Linux contributors from IBM in 2002 [1] ; it was integrated into the kernel in late 2003. The main idea is to enable a more efficient way for userspace code to synchronize multiple threads, with minimal kernel involvement.
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| Jul 13, 2018 | Basics of Futexes by ingve | 115 | 17 |
