[LAD] concurrent access on smp

Paul Giblock pgiblox at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:33:59 UTC 2012


> If your data structures and their use require locking, which you would like
> to avoid, there is a concept called Read-Copy-Update which is for example
> heavily used in the kernel and is also available as an userspace library
> (http://lttng.org/urcu).

Yes, the RCU approach is quite effective.  However, better to not call
it that since IBM has a patent on it last I checked.

-- Paul



More information about the Linux-audio-dev mailing list