Spinlocks vs Mutexes Explained – Synchronization Primitives & Critical Sections

In this video, we explore two fundamental synchronization primitives — spinlocks and mutexes — and how they behave inside critical sections of multithreaded code. If you’re working in concurrent programming, OS design, kernel modules, or performance-tuned systems, you’ll learn what a spinlock is, what a mutex is, and how to analyse which one gives you better performance under varying contention and critical-section lengths. According to trusted references, spinlocks use busy-waiting (loops) while mutexes block/wake threads, so the trade-offs matter a lot.

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