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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | 2005-05-01 11:59:05 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 11:59:05 -0400 |
commit | a83f1fe27f7252a2b73b4f22066e92bf99bd595b (patch) | |
tree | b6c4dd485fff268f86f396a85aad88cf29783dcd /Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | |
parent | fbd568a3e61a7decb8a754ad952aaa5b5c82e9e5 (diff) |
[PATCH] Update RCU documentation
Update the RCU documentation to allow for the new synchronize_rcu() and
synchronize_sched() primitives. Fix a few other nits as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 12250b342e1f..9c6d450138ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | |||
@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ year saw a paper describing an RCU implementation of System V IPC | |||
108 | 2004 has seen a Linux-Journal article on use of RCU in dcache | 108 | 2004 has seen a Linux-Journal article on use of RCU in dcache |
109 | [McKenney04a], a performance comparison of locking to RCU on several | 109 | [McKenney04a], a performance comparison of locking to RCU on several |
110 | different CPUs [McKenney04b], a dissertation describing use of RCU in a | 110 | different CPUs [McKenney04b], a dissertation describing use of RCU in a |
111 | number of operating-system kernels [PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD], and a paper | 111 | number of operating-system kernels [PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD], a paper |
112 | describing how to make RCU safe for soft-realtime applications [Sarma04c]. | 112 | describing how to make RCU safe for soft-realtime applications [Sarma04c], |
113 | and a paper describing SELinux performance with RCU [JamesMorris04b]. | ||
113 | 114 | ||
114 | 115 | ||
115 | Bibtex Entries | 116 | Bibtex Entries |
@@ -341,6 +342,17 @@ Dipankar Sarma" | |||
341 | ,pages="18-26" | 342 | ,pages="18-26" |
342 | } | 343 | } |
343 | 344 | ||
345 | @techreport{Friedberg03a | ||
346 | ,author="Stuart A. Friedberg" | ||
347 | ,title="Lock-Free Wild Card Search Data Structure and Method" | ||
348 | ,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office" | ||
349 | ,address="Washington, DC" | ||
350 | ,year="2003" | ||
351 | ,number="US Patent 6,662,184 (contributed under GPL)" | ||
352 | ,month="December" | ||
353 | ,pages="112" | ||
354 | } | ||
355 | |||
344 | @article{McKenney04a | 356 | @article{McKenney04a |
345 | ,author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma and Maneesh Soni" | 357 | ,author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma and Maneesh Soni" |
346 | ,title="Scaling dcache with {RCU}" | 358 | ,title="Scaling dcache with {RCU}" |
@@ -373,6 +385,9 @@ in Operating System Kernels" | |||
373 | ,school="OGI School of Science and Engineering at | 385 | ,school="OGI School of Science and Engineering at |
374 | Oregon Health and Sciences University" | 386 | Oregon Health and Sciences University" |
375 | ,year="2004" | 387 | ,year="2004" |
388 | ,note="Available: | ||
389 | \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf} | ||
390 | [Viewed October 15, 2004]" | ||
376 | } | 391 | } |
377 | 392 | ||
378 | @Conference{Sarma04c | 393 | @Conference{Sarma04c |
@@ -385,3 +400,13 @@ Oregon Health and Sciences University" | |||
385 | ,month="June" | 400 | ,month="June" |
386 | ,pages="182-191" | 401 | ,pages="182-191" |
387 | } | 402 | } |
403 | |||
404 | @unpublished{JamesMorris04b | ||
405 | ,Author="James Morris" | ||
406 | ,Title="Recent Developments in {SELinux} Kernel Performance" | ||
407 | ,month="December" | ||
408 | ,year="2004" | ||
409 | ,note="Available: | ||
410 | \url{http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/2153.html} | ||
411 | [Viewed December 10, 2004]" | ||
412 | } | ||