linux thread synchronization

Question

I am new to linux and linux threads. I have spent some time googling to try to understand the differences between all the functions available for thread synchronization. I sti

Answer 1

Application code should probably use posix thread functions. I assume you have man pages so type

man pthread_mutex_init
man pthread_rwlock_init
man pthread_spin_init

Read up on them and the functions that operate on them to figure out what you need.

If you're doing kernel mode programming then it's a different story. You'll need to have a feel for what you are doing, how long it takes, and what context it gets called in to have any idea what you need to use.