parallele-programmierung/u06-5/README.md

Problem 6.5: Implement a nonblocking spin lock

Spin locks are often used in code close to the hardware (e.g. in operating system kernels) to lock short critical sections where the overhead of blocking and later unblocking the thread would cost more time than the thread normally has to wait until entering the section. Instead of that, a spin lock contains a busy waitig loop that repeats ("spins round and round") until it succeeds to acquire the lock.

Implement a spin lock as a Java class with the following structure and test it using the SpinLockTest class in the source code folder on the server:

public class SpinLock {
	// ...
	public void lock() {
		// ...
	}
	public boolean unlock() { // returns whether the lock had indeed been acquired by current thread
		// ...
	}
}