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Introduction to queued spinlocks
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Queued spinlocks is a [locking mechanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_%28computer_science%29) in the Linux kernel which is replacement for the standard `spinlocks`. At least this is true for the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64) archutecutre. If we will look at the following kernel configuration file - [kernel/Kconfig.locks](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/Kconfig.locks), we will see following configuration entries:
Queued spinlocks is a [locking mechanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_%28computer_science%29) in the Linux kernel which is replacement for the standard `spinlocks`. At least this is true for the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64) architecture. If we will look at the following kernel configuration file - [kernel/Kconfig.locks](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/Kconfig.locks), we will see following configuration entries:
```
config ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS