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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>2005-05-01 11:59:05 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-01 11:59:05 -0400
commita83f1fe27f7252a2b73b4f22066e92bf99bd595b (patch)
treeb6c4dd485fff268f86f396a85aad88cf29783dcd /Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
parentfbd568a3e61a7decb8a754ad952aaa5b5c82e9e5 (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>
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@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ year saw a paper describing an RCU implementation of System V IPC
1082004 has seen a Linux-Journal article on use of RCU in dcache 1082004 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
110different CPUs [McKenney04b], a dissertation describing use of RCU in a 110different CPUs [McKenney04b], a dissertation describing use of RCU in a
111number of operating-system kernels [PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD], and a paper 111number of operating-system kernels [PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD], a paper
112describing how to make RCU safe for soft-realtime applications [Sarma04c]. 112describing how to make RCU safe for soft-realtime applications [Sarma04c],
113and a paper describing SELinux performance with RCU [JamesMorris04b].
113 114
114 115
115Bibtex Entries 116Bibtex 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
374Oregon Health and Sciences University" 386Oregon 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}