G3D::Spinlock Class Reference

A mutual exclusion lock that busy-waits when locking. More...

Public Member Functions
	Spinlock ()
void	lock ()
	Busy waits until the lock is unlocked, then locks it exclusively. More...
void	unlock ()

Detailed Description

A mutual exclusion lock that busy-waits when locking.

On a machine with one (significant) thread per processor core, a Spinlock may be substantially faster than a mutex.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Spinlock()

G3D::Spinlock::Spinlock ( )

inline

Member Function Documentation

lock()

void G3D::Spinlock::lock ( )

inline

Busy waits until the lock is unlocked, then locks it exclusively.

A single thread cannot re-enter Spinlock::lock() if already locked.

Referenced by G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::clear(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::popBack(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::popFront(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::pushBack(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::pushFront(), and G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::size().

unlock()

void G3D::Spinlock::unlock ( )

inline

Referenced by G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::clear(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::popBack(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::popFront(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::pushBack(), G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::pushFront(), and G3D::ThreadsafeQueue< G3D::_internal::NetworkCallbackInfo >::size().