Managing work units using a dynamic locking data structure

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a processing unit of a plurality of processing units executing a plurality of threads to perform operations associated with one or more computing resources, a work unit to be executed by a first thread of the plurality of threads, wherein the work unit is associated with a data structure comprising a queue of work units associated with a target resource of the one or more computing resources;
• determining, based on the data structure, whether there is contention for the target resource among a plurality of work units received by the plurality of processing units;
• identifying an owner thread of the plurality of threads that owns the data structure;
• and
• adding the work unit to the queue of the data structure.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• receive, by a processing unit of a plurality of processing units of the processing device executing a plurality of threads to perform operations associated with one or more computing resources, a work unit to be executed by a first thread of the plurality of threads, wherein the work unit is associated with a data structure comprising a queue of work units associated with a target resource of the one or more computing resources;
• determine, based on the data structure, that there is contention for the target resource among a plurality of work units received by the plurality of processing units;
• identify an owner thread of the plurality of threads that owns the data structure;
• and
• add the work unit to the queue of the data structure.