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God bless Paul E. McKenney, whose [http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf 2004 dissertation] put on a rigorous footing the grubby claims of many foul patents. RCU, as it is commonly understood to mean, exploits atomicity of aligned pointer writes to provide high-performance (pretty much optimal for a heavy reader bias) reader-writer locks. | |||
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The [http://lttng.org/?q=node/18 liburcu] project of the LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) effort is a userspace RCU library. | The [http://lttng.org/?q=node/18 liburcu] project of the LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) effort is a userspace RCU library. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:47, 12 November 2009
God bless Paul E. McKenney, whose 2004 dissertation put on a rigorous footing the grubby claims of many foul patents. RCU, as it is commonly understood to mean, exploits atomicity of aligned pointer writes to provide high-performance (pretty much optimal for a heavy reader bias) reader-writer locks.
liburcu
The liburcu project of the LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) effort is a userspace RCU library.
See also
- "Introduction to Read-Copy Update" by Paul McKenney
- "What is RCU, Fundamentally?" by Paul McKenney and Jonathan Walpole on LWN 2007-12-17
- "What is RCU?" by Paul McKenney, extending the previous
- "The Design of Preemptible RCU" by Paul McKenney on LWN 2007-10-08
- "Priority-Boosting RCU Read-Side Critical Sections" by Paul McKenney on LWN 2007-02-05
