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Subject[RELEASE] Userspace RCU library (liburcu) 0.2.2
Hi again,

New update. Userspace RCU 0.2.2:

- Phases out rcu_publish_content() api.
- Adds type checking to urcu-pointer.h pointer exchange primitives.

Mathieu

P.S.: maybe I should setup a mailing list for these announcements ?
Comments ?

* Mathieu Desnoyers (compudj@krystal.dyndns.org) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Userspace RCU 0.2.1 includes:
>
> - small header dependency fix for rculist.h.
> - new "liburcu-bp.so" : "Bulletproof RCU", made especially for the UST
> userspace tracer. It's a library that sacrifices a bit of read-side
> performance for automatically monitoring thread creation/removal. See
> README for details.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is a 0.2 version of the urcu library. It should clarify usage of
> >
> > rcu_cmpxchg_pointer
> > rcu_xchg_pointer
> > rcu_set_pointer
> >
> > which are the recommended primitives to deal with pointers.
> > rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, new) is provided as compatibility layer with the
> > Linux kernel semantic, but note that its semantic for the first
> > parameter is IMHO odd and differs from rcu_{cmpxchg,xchg,set}_pointer.
> >
> > Website URL:
> > http://lttng.org/urcu
> >
> > Direct link to the package:
> > http://www.lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-0.2.tar.gz
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mathieu
> >
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> > Mathieu Desnoyers
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>
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
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