HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Spinlocks, atomic_wait, futexes, and backoff

Lesson 64 of 96Phase 06: Concurrency and lock-free engineering
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Choose spinning, parking or hybrid waiting by hold time
  2. Design exponential or adaptive backoff
  3. Measure fairness, CPU consumption and tail latency

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Compare spin, atomic_wait and mutex behavior across contention levels.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A wait-strategy decision chart backed by measurements.

Prerequisite
EP 63

Phase 06

Concurrency and lock-free engineering

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