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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [RELEASE] Userspace RCU 0.6.0
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:14:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110611011417.GA8722@Krystal> (raw)

liburcu is a LGPLv2.1 userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library. This
data synchronization library provides read-side access which scales
linearly with the number of cores. It does so by allowing multiples
copies of a given data structure to live at the same time, and by
monitoring the data structure accesses to detect grace periods after
which memory reclamation is possible.

Changelog:

- Added call_rcu() support, graciously contributed by Paul E. McKenney.
- Added urcu/cds.h and merged all "Concurrent Data Containers" (CDS)
  into a single .so: liburcu-cds.so to have a single header/shared
  object holding all concurrency-aware data containers. It provides
  support for RCU lists, queues and stacks at the moment.
- liburcu 0.6.0 now allows linking a single application with multiple
  flavors of RCU. This required a library API change which is
  incompatible with older 0.5.x liburcu. The .so version number
  is therefore bumped from 0 to 1 (e.g. liburcu.so.1).
- Added "atfork" handling API, documented in README. Only useful for
  processes using fork() without following exec().
- Renaming the following files, keeping the old files (producing a
  compiler warning):
    urcu/uatomic_arch.h -> urcu/uatomic.h
    urcu/urcu-futex.h -> urcu/futex.h
    urcu/urcu_ref.h -> urcu/ref.h

Project website: http://lttng.org/urcu
Download link: http://www.lttng.org/files/urcu/

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-11  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-11  1:14 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2011-06-13  2:06 ` [ltt-dev] [RELEASE] Userspace RCU 0.6.0 Cui, Dexuan
2011-06-13  4:23   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-13 14:02     ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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