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1 Userspace RCU Implementatation
2 by Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney
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4 BUILDING
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7 make
8 make install
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11 QUICK START GUIDE
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14 Initialization
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16 Each thread that has reader critical sections (that uses
17 rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() must first register to the URCU
18 library. This is done by calling rcu_register_thread().
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20 Reading
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22 Reader critical sections must be protected by locating them between
23 calls to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(). Inside that lock,
24 rcu_dereference() may be called to read an RCU protected pointer.
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26 Writing
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28 rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_xchg_pointer() may be called anywhere.
29 After, synchronize_rcu() must be called. When it returns, the old values
30 are not in usage anymore.
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33 Usage of DEBUG_FULL_MB
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35 DEBUG_FULL_MB uses full SMP barriers for readers. This eliminates the
36 need for signals but results in slower reads.
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39 Usage of DEBUG_YIELD
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41 DEBUG_YIELD is used to add random delays in the code for testing
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