LWN: Comments on "Using read-copy-update" https://lwn.net/Articles/37889/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Using read-copy-update". en-us Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:06:56 +0000 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:06:56 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Using read-copy-update https://lwn.net/Articles/66653/ https://lwn.net/Articles/66653/ PaulMcKenney Yep, RCU maintains a per-CPU queue of callbacks registered by call_rcu(), which in this case would be equivalent to a per-CPU queue of items to be deleted. Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:26:22 +0000 Using read-copy-update https://lwn.net/Articles/39558/ https://lwn.net/Articles/39558/ goatbar What happens if a different processor updates the stucture before before the one scheduled to be deleted is deleted. It must keep a queue of these sturctures to delete, right? RCU seems like a nice and simple algorithm. Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:41:50 +0000