Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:08:50 -0400 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library (liburcu) 0.2.2 |
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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 > > > > -- > > Mathieu Desnoyers > > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68
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