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What's a pushlock?

Pushlocks are used internally by windows as synchronization primitives for some of its operations, specifically as part of the memory manager.

What exactly is a pushlock? How is it different from a spinlock?

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Info about push locks.

Amber  2009-08-03 22:55:04

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