1 Nov
2012
1 Nov
'12
8:56 a.m.
Paul Giblock wrote:
Calling it by a different name won't prevent it from infringing IBM
patents.
However, IBM's RCU license for all (L)GPL projects will.
Anyway, that library is published by the patent holder.
Regards,
Clemens
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.