Re: counting_semaphore question

Am 14.09.2024 um 12:58 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:

Everything has to be polled at some level except hardware interrupt based
code.

If the queue is empty CPU-time is usually handed voluntary to
another thread - not with a lock-free-queue.

I think you missed the point - locks are just a kernel construct. Their state still has to be polled by the kernel.

No, their state is maintained in userspace and the kernel is only there
for the slow path when there's contention.

Unless the locking mechanism is implemented in hardware then software
has to manage it whether in user  space or kernel space.

The fast-path is implemented in hardware through the support of atomics.
But that wasn't the point in the discussion because this doesn't relate
to lock free queue's drawback that there's no slow path and the queue
has to be polled.