Concurrency and Lock Management Questions

Focuses on concurrent programming patterns, synchronization primitives, and strategies for managing contention. Topics include mutexes, semaphores, read write locks, spinlocks, condition variables, transactional approaches, optimistic versus pessimistic locking, deadlock detection and prevention strategies, lock granularity and escalation, lock free and wait free algorithms, atomic operations and memory ordering, performance implications of locking, transaction isolation levels where relevant, and techniques for designing scalable highly concurrent systems.