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UserlandUserlandPosted Jan 4, 2008 4:06 UTC (Fri) by eduardo.juan (guest, #47737)Parent article: What is RCU, Fundamentally?
Thanks for this excellent article! I have a fundamentally question! :D Is any way to use RCU on userland programs? I mean, any lib or implementation of this constraints in userland? Thanks and regards!
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Using RCU in userland Posted Jan 4, 2008 18:13 UTC (Fri) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624) [Link] RCU has been used experimentally in user-mode code, and one benchmarking framework may be found at U. of Toronto.In addition, I vaguely recall at least one user-level RCU implementation being posted on LKML as a programming/debugging aid. There are some others that I am unfortunately unable to release at this time. As noted in an earlier comment, garbage-collected languages automatically provide much of the wait-for-reader functionality for free -- however, it is still necessary to correctly handle the publish-subscribe operation correctly. One way to do this in Java is to use the recently added "volatile" field specifier (no relation to "volatile" in C/C++) for the pointer that is being published. In other words, instead of using the Linux-kernel rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() to publish and subscribe, you instead mark the pointer itself using Java's "volatile" keyword.
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