Re: lkwt in DragonFly

[Bill Huey (hui) <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:04:53PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> RCU = Remote Copy Update, right? Just asking, so I can find the right
> paper to read more about it.

Read-Copy-Update. It's a read-mostly algorithm that's used to cluster data
structures writes/changes, so that it minimizes bus traffic across processors.

http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html

What Matt is talk about is merging a kind of quiescience operation into dfBSD
tokens if I understand correctly.

bill