mention lockless

Author: vladak

threads.tex

@@ -929,7 +929,8 @@
 to synchronize access to many small sections, significant amount of time might
 be spent in the overhead of calling functions implementing the locking.  It is
 therefore desired to search for a compromise.  (Or use an algorithm that does
-not require locks at all).
+not require locks at all - such algorithms/techniques are called \emph{lock
+free} or \emph{lockless}).
 \item \hlabel{MUTEX_RACE} Examples: \example{mutexes/race.c},
 \example{mutexes/race-fixed.c}
 \item Mutexes can be shared between processes so that their threads will

unix_dict.txt

@@ -379,3 +379,4 @@ tickless
 ViM
 IMproved
 TOCTOU
+lockless