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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 39ad8f56783a..9f711d2df91b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ of each iteration. Unfortunately, chaotic relaxation requires highly structured data, such as the matrices used in scientific programs, and is thus inapplicable to most data structures in operating-system kernels. +In 1992, Henry (now Alexia) Massalin completed a dissertation advising +parallel programmers to defer processing when feasible to simplify +synchronization. RCU makes extremely heavy use of this advice. + In 1993, Jacobson [Jacobson93] verbally described what is perhaps the simplest deferred-free technique: simply waiting a fixed amount of time before freeing blocks awaiting deferred free. Jacobson did not describe @@ -138,6 +142,13 @@ blocking in read-side critical sections appeared [PaulEMcKenney2006c], Robert Olsson described an RCU-protected trie-hash combination [RobertOlsson2006a]. +2007 saw the journal version of the award-winning RCU paper from 2006 +[ThomasEHart2007a], as well as a paper demonstrating use of Promela +and Spin to mechanically verify an optimization to Oleg Nesterov's +QRCU [PaulEMcKenney2007QRCUspin], a design document describing +preemptible RCU [PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCU], and the three-part +LWN "What is RCU?" series [PaulEMcKenney2007WhatIsRCUFundamentally, +PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUUsage, and PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUAPI]. Bibtex Entries @@ -202,6 +213,20 @@ Bibtex Entries ,Year="1991" } +@phdthesis{HMassalinPhD +,author="H. Massalin" +,title="Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental Operating +System Services" +,school="Columbia University" +,address="New York, NY" +,year="1992" +,annotation=" + Mondo optimizing compiler. + Wait-free stuff. + Good advice: defer work to avoid synchronization. +" +} + @unpublished{Jacobson93 ,author="Van Jacobson" ,title="Avoid Read-Side Locking Via Delayed Free" @@ -635,3 +660,86 @@ Revised: " } +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCU +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="The design of preemptible read-copy-update" +,month="October" +,day="8" +,year="2007" +,note="Available: +\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/} +[Viewed October 25, 2007]" +,annotation=" + LWN article describing the design of preemptible RCU. +" +} + +######################################################################## +# +# "What is RCU?" LWN series. +# + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007WhatIsRCUFundamentally +,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole" +,Title="What is {RCU}, Fundamentally?" +,month="December" +,day="17" +,year="2007" +,note="Available: +\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/} +[Viewed December 27, 2007]" +,annotation=" + Lays out the three basic components of RCU: (1) publish-subscribe, + (2) wait for pre-existing readers to complete, and (2) maintain + multiple versions. +" +} + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUUsage +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="What is {RCU}? Part 2: Usage" +,month="January" +,day="4" +,year="2008" +,note="Available: +\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/263130/} +[Viewed January 4, 2008]" +,annotation=" + Lays out six uses of RCU: + 1. RCU is a Reader-Writer Lock Replacement + 2. RCU is a Restricted Reference-Counting Mechanism + 3. RCU is a Bulk Reference-Counting Mechanism + 4. RCU is a Poor Man's Garbage Collector + 5. RCU is a Way of Providing Existence Guarantees + 6. RCU is a Way of Waiting for Things to Finish +" +} + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUAPI +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="{RCU} part 3: the {RCU} {API}" +,month="January" +,day="17" +,year="2008" +,note="Available: +\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/264090/} +[Viewed January 10, 2008]" +,annotation=" + Gives an overview of the Linux-kernel RCU API and a brief annotated RCU + bibliography. +" +} + +@article{DinakarGuniguntala2008IBMSysJ +,author="D. Guniguntala and P. E. McKenney and J. Triplett and J. Walpole" +,title="The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with {Linux}" +,Year="2008" +,Month="April" +,journal="IBM Systems Journal" +,volume="47" +,number="2" +,pages="@@-@@" +,annotation=" + RCU, realtime RCU, sleepable RCU, performance. +" +} |