spin-locks

spin-locks is a rust crate that provides a Intel hardware-optimized spin lock that uses Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) and a non-CAS based spin lock (an OR lock) as a fast fallback.

These locks do not provide a Mutex or a MutexGuard to automatically unlock on drop, as they do not protect a particular item of data. This is to make it easier to adapt these locks with the use of persistent memory, which is non-stack and non-heap allocated.

Licensing

The license for this project is MIT.

lib.rs:

#spin-locks An Intel hardware-optimized spin lock that uses Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) and a non-CAS based spin lock (an OR lock) as a fast fallback. The intel spin lock, IntelTsxHleSpinLock, is only available on x86 and x86_64 targets. To pick the best spin lock for the compilation target, use the type alias BestSpinLockForCompilationTarget.