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Re: lkwt in DragonFly


From: Bill Huey (hui) <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:08:19 -0800

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:04:53PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> RCU = Remote Copy Update, right? Just asking, so I can find the right
> paper to read more about it.

Read-Copy-Update. It's a read-mostly algorithm that's used to cluster data
structures writes/changes, so that it minimizes bus traffic across processors.

http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html

What Matt is talk about is merging a kind of quiescience operation into dfBSD
tokens if I understand correctly.

bill




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