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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Rusty Russell wrote:

> I'd love to say that I can solve this with RCU, but it's vastly non-trivial
> and I haven't got code, so I'm not going to say that. 8)

Lockless algos could help if we're able to have "good" quiescent point
inside the kernel. Or better have a good quiescent infrastructure to have
lockless code to plug in.



- Davide


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