Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757384AbZJBRFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:05:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757339AbZJBRFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:05:47 -0400 Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97]:51452 "EHLO tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757102AbZJBRFq (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:05:46 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsAEAF/PxUpMROOX/2dsb2JhbACBUtZuhCwEhi0 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:05:48 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Josh Triplett , Jon Bernard , Jan Blunck , "Paul E. McKenney" , Pierre Habouzit , Steven Munroe , Bert Wesarg , Pierre-Marc Fournier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu, ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca Subject: [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library (liburcu) 0.2.1 Message-ID: <20091002170548.GA19796@Krystal> References: <20090929210951.GC28427@Krystal> <20091001135611.GA12323@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091001135611.GA12323@Krystal> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.27.31-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 13:02:59 up 45 days, 3:52, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 0.50, 0.29 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1429 Lines: 50 Hello, Userspace RCU 0.2.1 includes: - small header dependency fix for rculist.h. - new "liburcu-bp.so" : "Bulletproof RCU", made especially for the UST userspace tracer. It's a library that sacrifices a bit of read-side performance for automatically monitoring thread creation/removal. See README for details. Thanks, Mathieu * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a 0.2 version of the urcu library. It should clarify usage of > > rcu_cmpxchg_pointer > rcu_xchg_pointer > rcu_set_pointer > > which are the recommended primitives to deal with pointers. > rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, new) is provided as compatibility layer with the > Linux kernel semantic, but note that its semantic for the first > parameter is IMHO odd and differs from rcu_{cmpxchg,xchg,set}_pointer. > > Website URL: > http://lttng.org/urcu > > Direct link to the package: > http://www.lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-0.2.tar.gz > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/