@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-Read the F-ing Papers!
+Read the Fscking Papers!
This document describes RCU-related publications, and is followed by
the corresponding bibtex entries. A number of the publications may
-be found at http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/.
+be found at http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/. For others, browsers
+and search engines will usually find what you are looking for.
The first thing resembling RCU was published in 1980, when Kung and Lehman
[Kung80] recommended use of a garbage collector to defer destruction
@@ -160,7 +161,25 @@ which Mathieu Desnoyers is now maintaining [MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU]
[MathieuDesnoyersPhD]. TINY_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU] made
its appearance, as did expedited RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU].
The problem of resizeable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
-to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash].
+to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash]. A few academic researchers are now
+using RCU to solve their parallel problems [HariKannan2009DynamicAnalysisRCU].
+
+2010 produced a simpler preemptible-RCU implementation based on TREE_RCU
+[PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU], lockdep-RCU [PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU],
+another resizeable RCU-protected hash table [HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash]
+(this one consuming more memory, but allowing arbitrary changes in hash
+function, as required for DoS avoidance in the networking code), realization
+of the 2009 resizeable hash table [JoshTriplett2010RPHash], an update on the
+RCU API [PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI].
+
+2011 marked the inclusion of Nick Piggin's fully lockless dentry search
+[LinusTorvalds2011Linux2:6:38:rc1:NPigginVFS], an RCU-protected red-black
+tree using software transactional memory to protect concurrent updates
+(strange, but true!) [PhilHoward2011RCUTMRBTree], yet another variant of
+RCU-protected resizeable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU
+trainwreck [PaulEMcKenney2011RCU3.0trainwreck], and Neil Brown's "Meet the
+Lockers" LWN article [NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers].
+
Bibtex Entries
@@ -173,6 +192,14 @@ Bibtex Entries
,volume="5"
,number="3"
,pages="354-382"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320619&dl=GUIDE,}
+[Viewed December 3, 2007]"
+,annotation={
+ Use garbage collector to clean up data after everyone is done with it.
+ .
+ Oldest use of something vaguely resembling RCU that I have found.
+}
}
@techreport{Manber82
@@ -184,6 +211,31 @@ Bibtex Entries
,number="82-01-01"
,month="January"
,pages="28"
+,annotation={
+ .
+ Superseded by Manber84.
+ .
+ Describes concurrent AVL tree implementation. Uses a
+ garbage-collection mechanism to handle concurrent use and deletion
+ of nodes in the tree, but lacks the summary-of-execution-history
+ concept of read-copy locking.
+ .
+ Keeps full list of processes that were active when a given
+ node was to be deleted, and waits until all such processes have
+ -terminated- before allowing this node to be reused. This is
+ not described in great detail -- one could imagine using process
+ IDs for this if the ID space was large enough that overlapping
+ never occurred.
+ .
+ This restriction makes this algorithm unsuitable for use in
+ systems comprised of long-lived processes. It also produces
+ completely unacceptable overhead in systems with large numbers
+ of processes. Finally, it is specific to AVL trees.
+ .
+ Cites Kung80, so not an independent invention, but the first
+ RCU-like usage that does not rely on an automatic garbage
+ collector.
+}
}
@article{Manber84
@@ -195,6 +247,74 @@ Bibtex Entries
,volume="9"
,number="3"
,pages="439-455"
+,annotation={
+ Describes concurrent AVL tree implementation. Uses a
+ garbage-collection mechanism to handle concurrent use and deletion
+ of nodes in the tree, but lacks the summary-of-execution-history
+ concept of read-copy locking.
+ .
+ Keeps full list of processes that were active when a given
+ node was to be deleted, and waits until all such processes have
+ -terminated- before allowing this node to be reused. This is
+ not described in great detail -- one could imagine using process
+ IDs for this if the ID space was large enough that overlapping
+ never occurred.
+ .
+ This restriction makes this algorithm unsuitable for use in
+ systems comprised of long-lived processes. It also produces
+ completely unacceptable overhead in systems with large numbers
+ of processes. Finally, it is specific to AVL trees.
+}
+}
+
+@Conference{RichardRashid87a
+,Author="Richard Rashid and Avadis Tevanian and Michael Young and
+David Golub and Robert Baron and David Black and William Bolosky and
+Jonathan Chew"
+,Title="Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged
+Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures"
+,Booktitle="{2\textsuperscript{nd} Symposium on Architectural Support
+for Programming Languages and Operating Systems}"
+,Publisher="Association for Computing Machinery"
+,Month="October"
+,Year="1987"
+,pages="31-39"
+,Address="Palo Alto, CA"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~randal/221/rashid-machvm.pdf}
+[Viewed February 17, 2005]"
+,annotation={
+ Describes lazy TLB flush, where one waits for each CPU to pass
+ through a scheduling-clock interrupt before reusing a given range
+ of virtual address. Does not describe how one determines that
+ all CPUs have in fact taken such an interrupt, though there are
+ no shortage of straightforward methods for accomplishing this.
+ .
+ Note that it does not make sense to just wait a fixed amount of
+ time, since a given CPU might have interrupts disabled for an
+ extended amount of time.
+}
+}
+
+@article{BarbaraLiskov1988ArgusCACM
+,author = {Barbara Liskov}
+,title = {Distributed programming in {Argus}}
+,journal = {Commun. ACM}
+,volume = {31}
+,number = {3}
+,year = {1988}
+,issn = {0001-0782}
+,pages = {300--312}
+,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/42392.42399}
+,publisher = {ACM}
+,address = {New York, NY, USA}
+,annotation= {
+ At the top of page 307: "Conflicts with deposits and withdrawals
+ are necessary if the reported total is to be up to date. They
+ could be avoided by having total return a sum that is slightly
+ out of date." Relies on semantics -- approximate numerical
+ values sometimes OK.
+}
}
@techreport{Hennessy89
@@ -216,6 +336,13 @@ Bibtex Entries
,year="1990"
,number="CS-TR-2222.1"
,month="June"
+,annotation={
+ Concurrent access to skip lists. Has both weak and strong search.
+ Uses concept of ``garbage queue'', but has no real way of cleaning
+ the garbage efficiently.
+ .
+ Appears to be an independent invention of an RCU-like mechanism.
+}
}
@Book{Adams91
@@ -223,20 +350,15 @@ Bibtex Entries
,title="Concurrent Programming, Principles, and Practices"
,Publisher="Benjamin Cummins"
,Year="1991"
+,annotation={
+ Has a few paragraphs describing ``chaotic relaxation'', a
+ numerical analysis technique that allows multiprocessors to
+ avoid synchronization overhead by using possibly-stale data.
+ .
+ Seems like this is descended from yet another independent
+ invention of RCU-like function -- but this is restricted
+ in that reclamation is not necessary.
}
-
-@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
@@ -244,7 +366,13 @@ System Services"
,title="Avoid Read-Side Locking Via Delayed Free"
,year="1993"
,month="September"
-,note="Verbal discussion"
+,note="private communication"
+,annotation={
+ Use fixed time delay to approximate grace period. Very simple,
+ but subject to random memory corruption under heavy load.
+ .
+ Independent invention of RCU-like mechanism.
+}
}
@Conference{AjuJohn95
@@ -256,6 +384,17 @@ System Services"
,Year="1995"
,pages="11-23"
,Address="New Orleans, LA"
+,note="Available:
+\url{https://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/neworl/full_papers/john.a}
+[Viewed October 1, 2010]"
+,annotation={
+ Age vnodes out of the cache, and have a fixed time set by a kernel
+ parameter. Not clear that all races were in fact correctly handled.
+ Used a 20-minute time by default, which would most definitely not
+ be suitable during DoS attacks or virus scans.
+ .
+ Apparently independent invention of RCU-like mechanism.
+}
}
@conference{Pu95a,
@@ -301,31 +440,47 @@ Utilizing Execution History and Thread Monitoring"
,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
,address="Washington, DC"
,year="1995"
-,number="US Patent 5,442,758 (contributed under GPL)"
+,number="US Patent 5,442,758"
,month="August"
+,annotation={
+ Describes the parallel RCU infrastructure. Includes NUMA aspect
+ (structure of bitmap can reflect bus structure of computer system).
+ .
+ Another independent invention of an RCU-like mechanism, but the
+ "real" RCU this time!
+}
}
@techreport{Slingwine97
,author="John D. Slingwine and Paul E. McKenney"
-,title="Method for maintaining data coherency using thread
-activity summaries in a multicomputer system"
+,title="Method for Maintaining Data Coherency Using Thread Activity
+Summaries in a Multicomputer System"
,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
,address="Washington, DC"
,year="1997"
-,number="US Patent 5,608,893 (contributed under GPL)"
+,number="US Patent 5,608,893"
,month="March"
+,pages="19"
+,annotation={
+ Describes use of RCU to synchronize data between a pair of
+ SMP/NUMA computer systems.
+}
}
@techreport{Slingwine98
,author="John D. Slingwine and Paul E. McKenney"
-,title="Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead
-mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor
-system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring"
+,title="Apparatus and Method for Achieving Reduced Overhead Mutual
+Exclusion and Maintaining Coherency in a Multiprocessor System
+Utilizing Execution History and Thread Monitoring"
,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
,address="Washington, DC"
,year="1998"
-,number="US Patent 5,727,209 (contributed under GPL)"
+,number="US Patent 5,727,209"
,month="March"
+,annotation={
+ Describes doing an atomic update by copying the data item and
+ then substituting it into the data structure.
+}
}
@Conference{McKenney98
@@ -337,6 +492,15 @@ Problems"
,Year="1998"
,pages="509-518"
,Address="Las Vegas, NV"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rclockpdcsproof.pdf}
+[Viewed December 3, 2007]"
+,annotation={
+ Describes and analyzes RCU mechanism in DYNIX/ptx. Describes
+ application to linked list update and log-buffer flushing.
+ Defines 'quiescent state'. Includes both measured and analytic
+ evaluation.
+}
}
@Conference{Gamsa99
@@ -349,18 +513,76 @@ Operating System Design and Implementation}"
,Year="1999"
,pages="87-100"
,Address="New Orleans, LA"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi99/full_papers/gamsa/gamsa.pdf}
+[Viewed August 30, 2006]"
+,annotation={
+ Use of RCU-like facility in K42/Tornado. Another independent
+ invention of RCU.
+ See especially pages 7-9 (Section 5).
+}
+}
+
+@unpublished{RustyRussell2000a
+,Author="Rusty Russell"
+,Title="Re: modular net drivers"
+,month="June"
+,year="2000"
+,day="23"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2000-06/msg00250.html}
+[Viewed April 10, 2006]"
+,annotation={
+ Proto-RCU proposal from Phil Rumpf and Rusty Russell.
+ Yet another independent invention of RCU.
+ Outline of algorithm to unload modules...
+ .
+ Appeared on net-dev mailing list.
+}
+}
+
+@unpublished{RustyRussell2000b
+,Author="Rusty Russell"
+,Title="Re: modular net drivers"
+,month="June"
+,year="2000"
+,day="24"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2000-06/msg00254.html}
+[Viewed April 10, 2006]"
+,annotation={
+ Proto-RCU proposal from Phil Rumpf and Rusty Russell.
+ .
+ Appeared on net-dev mailing list.
+}
+}
+
+@unpublished{McKenney01b
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion in {Linux}"
+,month="February"
+,year="2001"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcu/rcupdate_doc.html}
+[Viewed October 18, 2004]"
+,annotation={
+ Prototypical Linux documentation for RCU.
+}
}
@techreport{Slingwine01
,author="John D. Slingwine and Paul E. McKenney"
-,title="Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead
-mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor
-system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring"
+,title="Apparatus and Method for Achieving Reduced Overhead Mutual
+Exclusion and Maintaining Coherency in a Multiprocessor System
+Utilizing Execution History and Thread Monitoring"
,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
,address="Washington, DC"
,year="2001"
-,number="US Patent 5,219,690 (contributed under GPL)"
+,number="US Patent 6,219,690"
,month="April"
+,annotation={
+ 'Change in mode' aspect of RCU. Can be thought of as a lazy barrier.
+}
}
@Conference{McKenney01a
@@ -372,14 +594,61 @@ Orran Krieger and Rusty Russell and Dipankar Sarma and Maneesh Soni"
,Year="2001"
,note="Available:
\url{http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2001/abstracts/readcopy.php}
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/rclock/rclock_OLS.2001.05.01c.pdf}
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rclock_OLS.2001.05.01c.pdf}
[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
-annotation="
-Described RCU, and presented some patches implementing and using it in
-the Linux kernel.
+,annotation={
+ Described RCU, and presented some patches implementing and using
+ it in the Linux kernel.
+}
+}
+
+@unpublished{McKenney01f
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{RFC:} patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion"
+,month="October"
+,year="2001"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100259266316456&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Memory-barrier and Alpha thread. 100 messages, not too bad...
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Spraul01
+,Author="Manfred Spraul"
+,Title="Re: {RFC:} patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion"
+,month="October"
+,year="2001"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100264675012867&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Suggested burying memory barriers in Linux's list-manipulation
+ primitives.
"
}
+@unpublished{LinusTorvalds2001a
+,Author="Linus Torvalds"
+,Title="{Re:} {[Lse-tech]} {Re:} {RFC:} patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion"
+,month="October"
+,year="2001"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/10/13/105}
+[Viewed August 21, 2004]"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Blanchard02a
+,Author="Anton Blanchard"
+,Title="some RCU dcache and ratcache results"
+,month="March"
+,year="2002"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101637107412972&w=2}
+[Viewed October 18, 2004]"
+}
+
@Conference{Linder02a
,Author="Hanna Linder and Dipankar Sarma and Maneesh Soni"
,Title="Scalability of the Directory Entry Cache"
@@ -387,6 +656,10 @@ the Linux kernel.
,Month="June"
,Year="2002"
,pages="289-300"
+,annotation="
+ Measured scalability of Linux 2.4 kernel's directory-entry cache
+ (dcache), and measured some scalability enhancements.
+"
}
@Conference{McKenney02a
@@ -400,49 +673,76 @@ Andrea Arcangeli and Andi Kleen and Orran Krieger and Rusty Russell"
,note="Available:
\url{http://www.linux.org.uk/~ajh/ols2002_proceedings.pdf.gz}
[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Presented and compared a number of RCU implementations for the
+ Linux kernel.
+"
}
-@conference{Michael02a
-,author="Maged M. Michael"
-,title="Safe Memory Reclamation for Dynamic Lock-Free Objects Using Atomic
-Reads and Writes"
-,Year="2002"
-,Month="August"
-,booktitle="{Proceedings of the 21\textsuperscript{st} Annual ACM
-Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing}"
-,pages="21-30"
+@unpublished{Sarma02a
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="specweb99: dcache scalability results"
+,month="July"
+,year="2002"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102645767914212&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
,annotation="
- Each thread keeps an array of pointers to items that it is
- currently referencing. Sort of an inside-out garbage collection
- mechanism, but one that requires the accessing code to explicitly
- state its needs. Also requires read-side memory barriers on
- most architectures.
+ Compare fastwalk and RCU for dcache. RCU won.
"
}
-@conference{Michael02b
-,author="Maged M. Michael"
-,title="High Performance Dynamic Lock-Free Hash Tables and List-Based Sets"
-,Year="2002"
-,Month="August"
-,booktitle="{Proceedings of the 14\textsuperscript{th} Annual ACM
-Symposium on Parallel
-Algorithms and Architecture}"
-,pages="73-82"
+@unpublished{Barbieri02
+,Author="Luca Barbieri"
+,Title="Re: {[PATCH]} Initial support for struct {vfs\_cred}"
+,month="August"
+,year="2002"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103082050621241&w=2}
+[Viewed: June 23, 2004]"
,annotation="
- Like the title says...
+ Suggested RCU for vfs\_shared\_cred.
"
}
-@InProceedings{HerlihyLM02
-,author={Maurice Herlihy and Victor Luchangco and Mark Moir}
-,title="The Repeat Offender Problem: A Mechanism for Supporting Dynamic-Sized,
-Lock-Free Data Structures"
-,booktitle={Proceedings of 16\textsuperscript{th} International
-Symposium on Distributed Computing}
-,year=2002
+@unpublished{Dickins02a
+,author="Hugh Dickins"
+,title="Use RCU for System-V IPC"
+,year="2002"
+,month="October"
+,note="private communication"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Sarma02b
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="Some dcache\_rcu benchmark numbers"
,month="October"
-,pages="339-353"
+,year="2002"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103462075416638&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Performance of dcache RCU on kernbench for 16x NUMA-Q and 1x,
+ 2x, and 4x systems. RCU does no harm, and helps on 16x.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{LinusTorvalds2003a
+,Author="Linus Torvalds"
+,Title="Re: {[PATCH]} small fixes in brlock.h"
+,month="March"
+,year="2003"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/9/205}
+[Viewed March 13, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ Linus suggests replacing brlock with RCU and/or seqlocks:
+ .
+ 'It's entirely possible that the current user could be replaced
+ by RCU and/or seqlocks, and we could get rid of brlocks entirely.'
+ .
+ Steve Hemminger responds by replacing them with RCU.
+"
}
@article{Appavoo03a
@@ -457,6 +757,20 @@ B. Rosenburg and M. Stumm and J. Xenidis"
,volume="42"
,number="1"
,pages="60-76"
+,annotation="
+ Use of RCU to enable hot-swapping for autonomic behavior in K42.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Seigh03
+,author="Joseph W. {Seigh II}"
+,title="Read Copy Update"
+,Year="2003"
+,Month="March"
+,note="email correspondence"
+,annotation="
+ Described the relationship of the VM/XA passive serialization to RCU.
+"
}
@Conference{Arcangeli03
@@ -470,6 +784,27 @@ Dipankar Sarma"
,year="2003"
,month="June"
,pages="297-310"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rcu.FREENIX.2003.06.14.pdf}
+[Viewed November 21, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Compared updated RCU implementations for the Linux kernel, and
+ described System V IPC use of RCU, including order-of-magnitude
+ performance improvements.
+"
+}
+
+@Conference{Soules03a
+,Author="Craig A. N. Soules and Jonathan Appavoo and Kevin Hui and
+Dilma {Da Silva} and Gregory R. Ganger and Orran Krieger and
+Michael Stumm and Robert W. Wisniewski and Marc Auslander and
+Michal Ostrowski and Bryan Rosenburg and Jimi Xenidis"
+,Title="System Support for Online Reconfiguration"
+,Booktitle="Proceedings of the 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference"
+,Publisher="USENIX Association"
+,year="2003"
+,month="June"
+,pages="141-154"
}
@article{McKenney03a
@@ -481,6 +816,22 @@ Dipankar Sarma"
,volume="1"
,number="114"
,pages="18-26"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6993}
+[Viewed November 14, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Reader-friendly intro to RCU, with the infamous old-man-and-brat
+ cartoon.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Sarma03a
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="RCU low latency patches"
+,month="December"
+,year="2003"
+,note="Message ID: 20031222180114.GA2248@in.ibm.com"
+,annotation="dipankar/ct.2004.03.27/RCUll.2003.12.22.patch"
}
@techreport{Friedberg03a
@@ -489,9 +840,14 @@ Dipankar Sarma"
,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
,address="Washington, DC"
,year="2003"
-,number="US Patent 6,662,184 (contributed under GPL)"
+,number="US Patent 6,662,184"
,month="December"
,pages="112"
+,annotation="
+ Applies RCU to a wildcard-search Patricia tree in order to permit
+ synchronization-free lookup. RCU is used to retain removed nodes
+ for a grace period before freeing them.
+"
}
@article{McKenney04a
@@ -503,6 +859,12 @@ Dipankar Sarma"
,volume="1"
,number="118"
,pages="38-46"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7124}
+[Viewed December 26, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ Reader friendly intro to dcache and RCU.
+"
}
@Conference{McKenney04b
@@ -514,119 +876,519 @@ Dipankar Sarma"
,Address="Adelaide, Australia"
,note="Available:
\url{http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/abstracts.html#90}
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/rclock/lockperf.2004.01.17a.pdf}
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/lockperf.2004.01.17a.pdf}
[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Compares performance of RCU to that of other locking primitives
+ over a number of CPUs (x86, Opteron, Itanium, and PPC).
+"
}
-@phdthesis{PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD
-,author="Paul E. McKenney"
-,title="Exploiting Deferred Destruction:
-An Analysis of Read-Copy-Update Techniques
-in Operating System Kernels"
-,school="OGI School of Science and Engineering at
-Oregon Health and Sciences University"
+@unpublished{Sarma04a
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="{[PATCH]} {RCU} for low latency (experimental)"
+,month="March"
+,year="2004"
+,note="\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108003746402892&w=2}"
+,annotation="Head of thread: dipankar/2004.03.23/rcu-low-lat.1.patch"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Sarma04b
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="Re: {[PATCH]} {RCU} for low latency (experimental)"
+,month="March"
+,year="2004"
+,note="\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108016474829546&w=2}"
+,annotation="dipankar/rcuth.2004.03.24/rcu-throttle.patch"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Spraul04a
+,Author="Manfred Spraul"
+,Title="[RFC] 0/5 rcu lock update"
+,month="May"
,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf}
-[Viewed October 15, 2004]"
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546407726602&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Hierarchical-bitmap patch for RCU infrastructure.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Steiner04a
+,Author="Jack Steiner"
+,Title="Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC, PATCH] 1/5 rcu lock update:
+Add per-cpu batch counter"
+,month="May"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108551764515332&w=2}
+[Viewed June 23, 2004]"
+,annotation={
+ RCU runs reasonably on a 512-CPU SGI using Manfred Spraul's patches,
+ which may be found at:
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/20/49 (split vars into cachelines)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/22/114 (cpu_quiet() patch)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/24 (0/5)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/23 (1/5)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/265 (works for Jack)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/20 (2/5)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/22 (3/5)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/19 (4/5)
+ https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/25/21 (5/5)
+}
}
@Conference{Sarma04c
,Author="Dipankar Sarma and Paul E. McKenney"
-,Title="Making RCU Safe for Deep Sub-Millisecond Response Realtime Applications"
+,Title="Making {RCU} Safe for Deep Sub-Millisecond Response
+Realtime Applications"
,Booktitle="Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
(FREENIX Track)"
,Publisher="USENIX Association"
,year="2004"
,month="June"
,pages="182-191"
+,annotation="
+ Describes and compares a number of modifications to the Linux RCU
+ implementation that make it friendly to realtime applications.
+"
}
-@unpublished{JamesMorris04b
-,Author="James Morris"
-,Title="Recent Developments in {SELinux} Kernel Performance"
-,month="December"
+@phdthesis{PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD
+,author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,title="Exploiting Deferred Destruction:
+An Analysis of Read-Copy-Update Techniques
+in Operating System Kernels"
+,school="OGI School of Science and Engineering at
+Oregon Health and Sciences University"
,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/2153.html}
-[Viewed December 10, 2004]"
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf}
+[Viewed October 15, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Describes RCU implementations and presents design patterns
+ corresponding to common uses of RCU in several operating-system
+ kernels.
+"
}
-@unpublished{PaulMcKenney05a
-,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
-,Title="{[RFC]} {RCU} and {CONFIG\_PREEMPT\_RT} progress"
-,month="May"
-,year="2005"
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2004rcu:dereference
+,Author="Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="{Re: RCU : Abstracted RCU dereferencing [5/5]}"
+,month="August"
+,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/9/185}
-[Viewed May 13, 2005]"
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/6/237}
+[Viewed June 8, 2010]"
,annotation="
- First publication of working lock-based deferred free patches
- for the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT environment.
+ Introduce rcu_dereference().
"
}
-@conference{PaulMcKenney05b
-,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma"
-,Title="Towards Hard Realtime Response from the Linux Kernel on SMP Hardware"
-,Booktitle="linux.conf.au 2005"
-,month="April"
-,year="2005"
-,address="Canberra, Australia"
+@unpublished{JimHouston04a
+,Author="Jim Houston"
+,Title="{[RFC\&PATCH] Alternative {RCU} implementation}"
+,month="August"
+,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/realtimeRCU.2005.04.23a.pdf}
-[Viewed May 13, 2005]"
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/30/87}
+[Viewed February 17, 2005]"
,annotation="
- Realtime turns into making RCU yet more realtime friendly.
+ Uses active code in rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() to
+ make RCU happen, allowing RCU to function on CPUs that do not
+ receive a scheduling-clock interrupt.
"
}
-@conference{ThomasEHart2006a
-,Author="Thomas E. Hart and Paul E. McKenney and Angela Demke Brown"
-,Title="Making Lockless Synchronization Fast: Performance Implications
-of Memory Reclamation"
-,Booktitle="20\textsuperscript{th} {IEEE} International Parallel and
-Distributed Processing Symposium"
-,month="April"
-,year="2006"
-,day="25-29"
-,address="Rhodes, Greece"
+@unpublished{TomHart04a
+,Author="Thomas E. Hart"
+,Title="Master's Thesis: Applying Lock-free Techniques to the {Linux} Kernel"
+,month="October"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tomhart/masters_thesis.html}
+[Viewed October 15, 2004]"
,annotation="
- Compares QSBR (AKA "classic RCU"), HPBR, EBR, and lock-free
- reference counting.
+ Proposes comparing RCU to lock-free methods for the Linux kernel.
"
}
-@Conference{PaulEMcKenney2006b
-,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma and Ingo Molnar and
-Suparna Bhattacharya"
-,Title="Extending RCU for Realtime and Embedded Workloads"
-,Booktitle="{Ottawa Linux Symposium}"
-,Month="July"
-,Year="2006"
-,pages="v2 123-138"
+@unpublished{Vaddagiri04a
+,Author="Srivatsa Vaddagiri"
+,Title="Subject: [RFC] Use RCU for tcp\_ehash lookup"
+,month="October"
+,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/index_2006.php}
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf}
-[Viewed January 1, 2007]"
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109395731700004&r=1&w=2}
+[Viewed October 18, 2004]"
,annotation="
- Described how to improve the -rt implementation of realtime RCU.
+ Srivatsa's RCU patch for tcp_ehash lookup.
"
}
-@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2006c
-,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
-,Title="Sleepable {RCU}"
+@unpublished{Thirumalai04a
+,Author="Ravikiran Thirumalai"
+,Title="Subject: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 of 5"
,month="October"
-,day="9"
-,year="2006"
+,year="2004"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/202847/}
-Revised:
-\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/srcu.2007.01.14a.pdf}
-[Viewed August 21, 2006]"
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109144217400003&r=1&w=2}
+[Viewed October 18, 2004]"
,annotation="
- LWN article introducing SRCU.
+ Ravikiran's lockfree FD patch.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{Thirumalai04b
+,Author="Ravikiran Thirumalai"
+,Title="Subject: Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 of 5"
+,month="October"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109152521410459&w=2}
+[Viewed October 18, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ Ravikiran's lockfree FD patch.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2004rcu:assign:pointer
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[PATCH 1/3] RCU: \url{rcu_assign_pointer()} removal of memory barriers}"
+,month="October"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/241}
+[Viewed June 8, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ Introduce rcu_assign_pointer().
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JamesMorris04a
+,Author="James Morris"
+,Title="{[PATCH 2/3] SELinux} scalability - convert {AVC} to {RCU}"
+,day="15"
+,month="November"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110054979416004&w=2}
+[Viewed December 10, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ James Morris posts Kaigai Kohei's patch to LKML.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JamesMorris04b
+,Author="James Morris"
+,Title="Recent Developments in {SELinux} Kernel Performance"
+,month="December"
+,year="2004"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/2153.html}
+[Viewed December 10, 2004]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU helps SELinux performance. ;-) Made LWN.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005RCUSemantics
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
+,Title="{RCU} Semantics: A First Attempt"
+,month="January"
+,year="2005"
+,day="30"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rcu-semantics.2005.01.30a.pdf}
+[Viewed December 6, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Early derivation of RCU semantics.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005e
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Real-Time Preemption and {RCU}"
+,month="March"
+,year="2005"
+,day="17"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/17/199}
+[Viewed September 5, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ First posting showing how RCU can be safely adapted for
+ preemptable RCU read side critical sections.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{EsbenNeilsen2005a
+,Author="Esben Neilsen"
+,Title="Re: Real-Time Preemption and {RCU}"
+,month="March"
+,year="2005"
+,day="18"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/18/122}
+[Viewed March 30, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ Esben Neilsen suggests read-side suppression of grace-period
+ processing for crude-but-workable realtime RCU. The downside
+ is indefinite grace periods...But this is OK for experimentation
+ and testing.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{TomHart05a
+,Author="Thomas E. Hart and Paul E. McKenney and Angela Demke Brown"
+,Title="Efficient Memory Reclamation is Necessary for Fast Lock-Free
+Data Structures"
+,month="March"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/csrg-technical-reports/515/}
+[Viewed March 4, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Comparison of RCU, QBSR, and EBSR. RCU wins for read-mostly
+ workloads. ;-)
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JonCorbet2005DeprecateSyncKernel
+,Author="Jonathan Corbet"
+,Title="API change: synchronize_kernel() deprecated"
+,month="May"
+,day="3"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/134484/}
+[Viewed May 3, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Jon Corbet describes deprecation of synchronize_kernel()
+ in favor of synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched().
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney05a
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[RFC]} {RCU} and {CONFIG\_PREEMPT\_RT} progress"
+,month="May"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/9/185}
+[Viewed May 13, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ First publication of working lock-based deferred free patches
+ for the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT environment.
+"
+}
+
+@conference{PaulMcKenney05b
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma"
+,Title="Towards Hard Realtime Response from the {Linux} Kernel on {SMP} Hardware"
+,Booktitle="linux.conf.au 2005"
+,month="April"
+,year="2005"
+,address="Canberra, Australia"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/realtimeRCU.2005.04.23a.pdf}
+[Viewed May 13, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Realtime turns into making RCU yet more realtime friendly.
+ http://lca2005.linux.org.au/Papers/Paul%20McKenney/Towards%20Hard%20Realtime%20Response%20from%20the%20Linux%20Kernel/LKS.2005.04.22a.pdf
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyHomePage
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{Paul} {E.} {McKenney}"
+,month="May"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/}
+[Viewed May 25, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Paul McKenney's home page.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyRCUPage
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Read-Copy Update {(RCU)}"
+,month="May"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU}
+[Viewed May 25, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Paul McKenney's RCU page.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JosephSeigh2005a
+,Author="Joseph Seigh"
+,Title="{RCU}+{SMR} (hazard pointers)"
+,month="July"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Personal communication"
+,annotation="
+ Joe Seigh announcing his atomic-ptr-plus project.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/atomic-ptr-plus/
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JosephSeigh2005b
+,Author="Joseph Seigh"
+,Title="Lock-free synchronization primitives"
+,month="July"
+,day="6"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/atomic-ptr-plus/}
+[Viewed August 8, 2005]"
+,annotation="
+ Joe Seigh's atomic-ptr-plus project.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005c
+,Author="Paul E.McKenney"
+,Title="{[RFC,PATCH] RCU} and {CONFIG\_PREEMPT\_RT} sane patch"
+,month="August"
+,day="1"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/1/155}
+[Viewed March 14, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ First operating counter-based realtime RCU patch posted to LKML.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005d
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Re: [Fwd: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01]"
+,month="August"
+,day="8"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/108}
+[Viewed March 14, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ First operating counter-based realtime RCU patch posted to LKML,
+ but fixed so that various unusual combinations of configuration
+ parameters all function properly.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005rcutorture
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[PATCH]} {RCU} torture testing"
+,month="October"
+,day="1"
+,year="2005"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/1/70}
+[Viewed March 14, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ First rcutorture patch.
+"
+}
+
+@conference{ThomasEHart2006a
+,Author="Thomas E. Hart and Paul E. McKenney and Angela Demke Brown"
+,Title="Making Lockless Synchronization Fast: Performance Implications
+of Memory Reclamation"
+,Booktitle="20\textsuperscript{th} {IEEE} International Parallel and
+Distributed Processing Symposium"
+,month="April"
+,year="2006"
+,day="25-29"
+,address="Rhodes, Greece"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/hart_ipdps06.pdf}
+[Viewed April 28, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Compares QSBR, HPBR, EBR, and lock-free reference counting.
+ http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tomhart/perflab/ipdps06.tgz
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{NickPiggin2006radixtree
+,Author="Nick Piggin"
+,Title="[patch 3/3] radix-tree: {RCU} lockless readside"
+,month="June"
+,day="20"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/20/238}
+[Viewed March 25, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU-protected radix tree.
+"
+}
+
+@Conference{PaulEMcKenney2006b
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Dipankar Sarma and Ingo Molnar and
+Suparna Bhattacharya"
+,Title="Extending {RCU} for Realtime and Embedded Workloads"
+,Booktitle="{Ottawa Linux Symposium}"
+,Month="July"
+,Year="2006"
+,pages="v2 123-138"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=184}
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf}
+[Viewed January 1, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Described how to improve the -rt implementation of realtime RCU.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{WikipediaRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Chris Purcell and Algae and Ben Schumin and
+Gaius Cornelius and Qwertyus and Neil Conway and Sbw and Blainster and
+Canis Rufus and Zoicon5 and Anome and Hal Eisen"
+,Title="Read-Copy Update"
+,month="July"
+,day="8"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update}
+[Viewed August 21, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ Wikipedia RCU page as of July 8 2006.
+"
+}
+
+@Conference{NickPiggin2006LocklessPageCache
+,Author="Nick Piggin"
+,Title="A Lockless Pagecache in Linux---Introduction, Progress, Performance"
+,Booktitle="{Ottawa Linux Symposium}"
+,Month="July"
+,Year="2006"
+,pages="v2 249-254"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=184}
+[Viewed January 11, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Uses RCU-protected radix tree for a lockless page cache.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2006c
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Sleepable {RCU}"
+,month="October"
+,day="9"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/202847/}
+Revised:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/srcu.2007.01.14a.pdf}
+[Viewed August 21, 2006]"
+,annotation="
+ LWN article introducing SRCU.
"
}
@@ -637,29 +1399,301 @@ Revised:
,day="18"
,year="2006"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/trash/trash.pdf}
-[Viewed February 24, 2007]"
+\url{http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/publications/TRASH/trash.pdf}
+[Viewed March 4, 2011]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU-protected dynamic trie-hash combination.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{ChristophHellwig2006RCU2SRCU
+,Author="Christoph Hellwig"
+,Title="Re: {[-mm PATCH 1/4]} {RCU}: split classic rcu"
+,month="September"
+,day="28"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/28/160}
+[Viewed March 27, 2008]"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyRCUusagePage
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{RCU} {Linux} Usage"
+,month="October"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/linuxusage.html}
+[Viewed January 14, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Paul McKenney's RCU page showing graphs plotting Linux-kernel
+ usage of RCU.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyRCUusageRawDataPage
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Read-Copy Update {(RCU)} Usage in {Linux} Kernel"
+,month="October"
+,year="2006"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/linuxusage/rculocktab.html}
+[Viewed January 14, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Paul McKenney's RCU page showing Linux usage of RCU in tabular
+ form, with links to corresponding cscope databases.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{GauthamShenoy2006RCUrwlock
+,Author="Gautham R. Shenoy"
+,Title="[PATCH 4/5] lock\_cpu\_hotplug: Redesign - Lightweight implementation of lock\_cpu\_hotplug"
+,month="October"
+,year="2006"
+,day=26
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/73}
+[Viewed January 26, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU-based reader-writer lock that allows readers to proceed with
+ no memory barriers or atomic instruction in absence of writers.
+ If writer do show up, readers must of course wait as required by
+ the semantics of reader-writer locking. This is a recursive
+ lock.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{JensAxboe2006SlowSRCU
+,Author="Jens Axboe"
+,Title="Re: [patch] cpufreq: mark \url{cpufreq_tsc()} as
+\url{core_initcall_sync}"
+,month="November"
+,year="2006"
+,day=17
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/17/56}
+[Viewed May 28, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ SRCU's grace periods are too slow for Jens, even after a
+ factor-of-three speedup.
+ Sped-up version of SRCU at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/17/359.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{OlegNesterov2006QRCU
+,Author="Oleg Nesterov"
+,Title="Re: [patch] cpufreq: mark {\tt cpufreq\_tsc()} as
+{\tt core\_initcall\_sync}"
+,month="November"
+,year="2006"
+,day=19
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/19/69}
+[Viewed May 28, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ First cut of QRCU. Expanded/corrected versions followed.
+ Used to be OlegNesterov2007QRCU, now time-corrected.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{OlegNesterov2006aQRCU
+,Author="Oleg Nesterov"
+,Title="Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/2] qrcu: {"quick"} srcu implementation"
+,month="November"
+,year="2006"
+,day=30
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/29/330}
+[Viewed November 26, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Expanded/corrected version of QRCU.
+ Used to be OlegNesterov2007aQRCU, now time-corrected.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{EvgeniyPolyakov2006RCUslowdown
+,Author="Evgeniy Polyakov"
+,Title="Badness in postponing work"
+,month="December"
+,year="2006"
+,day=05
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.ioremap.net/node/41}
+[Viewed October 28, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Using RCU as a pure delay leads to a 2.5x slowdown in skbs in
+ the Linux kernel.
+"
+}
+
+@inproceedings{ChrisMatthews2006ClusteredObjectsRCU
+,author = {Matthews, Chris and Coady, Yvonne and Appavoo, Jonathan}
+,title = {Portability events: a programming model for scalable system infrastructures}
+,booktitle = {PLOS '06: Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Programming languages and operating systems}
+,year = {2006}
+,isbn = {1-59593-577-0}
+,pages = {11}
+,location = {San Jose, California}
+,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1215995.1216006}
+,publisher = {ACM}
+,address = {New York, NY, USA}
+,annotation={
+ Uses K42's RCU-like functionality to manage clustered-object
+ lifetimes.
+}}
+
+@article{DilmaDaSilva2006K42
+,author = {Silva, Dilma Da and Krieger, Orran and Wisniewski, Robert W. and Waterland, Amos and Tam, David and Baumann, Andrew}
+,title = {K42: an infrastructure for operating system research}
+,journal = {SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.}
+,volume = {40}
+,number = {2}
+,year = {2006}
+,issn = {0163-5980}
+,pages = {34--42}
+,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1131322.1131333}
+,publisher = {ACM}
+,address = {New York, NY, USA}
+,annotation={
+ Describes relationship of K42 generations to RCU.
+}}
+
+# CoreyMinyard2007list_splice_rcu
+@unpublished{CoreyMinyard2007list:splice:rcu
+,Author="Corey Minyard and Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[PATCH]} add an {RCU} version of list splicing"
+,month="January"
+,year="2007"
+,day=3
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/112}
+[Viewed May 28, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Patch for list_splice_rcu().
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007rcubarrier
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{RCU} and Unloadable Modules"
+,month="January"
+,day="14"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/217484/}
+[Viewed November 22, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ LWN article introducing the rcu_barrier() primitive.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PeterZijlstra2007SyncBarrier
+,Author="Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar"
+,Title="{[PATCH 3/7]} barrier: a scalable synchonisation barrier"
+,month="January"
+,year="2007"
+,day=28
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/28/34}
+[Viewed March 27, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU-like implementation for frequent updaters and rare readers(!).
+ Subsumed into QRCU. Maybe...
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007BoostRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Priority-Boosting {RCU} Read-Side Critical Sections"
+,month="February"
+,day="5"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/220677/}
+Revised:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUbooststate.2007.04.16a.pdf}
+[Viewed September 7, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ LWN article introducing RCU priority boosting.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2007QRCUpatch
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[PATCH]} {QRCU} with lockless fastpath"
+,month="February"
+,year="2007"
+,day=24
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/25/18}
+[Viewed March 27, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Patch for QRCU supplying lock-free fast path.
+"
+}
+
+@article{JonathanAppavoo2007K42RCU
+,author = {Appavoo, Jonathan and Silva, Dilma Da and Krieger, Orran and Auslander, Marc and Ostrowski, Michal and Rosenburg, Bryan and Waterland, Amos and Wisniewski, Robert W. and Xenidis, Jimi and Stumm, Michael and Soares, Livio}
+,title = {Experience distributing objects in an SMMP OS}
+,journal = {ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.}
+,volume = {25}
+,number = {3}
+,year = {2007}
+,issn = {0734-2071}
+,pages = {6/1--6/52}
+,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1275517.1275518}
+,publisher = {ACM}
+,address = {New York, NY, USA}
+,annotation={
+ Role of RCU in K42.
+}}
+
+@conference{RobertOlsson2007Trash
+,Author="Robert Olsson and Stefan Nilsson"
+,Title="{TRASH}: A dynamic {LC}-trie and hash data structure"
+,booktitle="Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR'07)"
+,month="May"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4281239}
+[Viewed October 1, 2010]"
,annotation="
RCU-protected dynamic trie-hash combination.
"
}
-@unpublished{ThomasEHart2007a
-,Author="Thomas E. Hart and Paul E. McKenney and Angela Demke Brown and Jonathan Walpole"
-,Title="Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization"
-,journal="J. Parallel Distrib. Comput."
+@conference{PeterZijlstra2007ConcurrentPagecacheRCU
+,Author="Peter Zijlstra"
+,Title="Concurrent Pagecache"
+,Booktitle="Linux Symposium"
+,month="June"
+,year="2007"
+,address="Ottawa, Canada"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/zijlstra-Reprint.pdf}
+[Viewed April 14, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Page-cache modifications permitting RCU readers and concurrent
+ updates.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007whatisRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="What is {RCU}?"
,year="2007"
-,note="To appear in J. Parallel Distrib. Comput.
- \url{doi=10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.04.010}"
+,month="07"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/whatisRCU.html}
+[Viewed July 6, 2007]"
,annotation={
- Compares QSBR (AKA "classic RCU"), HPBR, EBR, and lock-free
- reference counting. Journal version of ThomasEHart2006a.
+ Describes RCU in Linux kernel.
}
}
@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007QRCUspin
,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
-,Title="Using Promela and Spin to verify parallel algorithms"
+,Title="Using {Promela} and {Spin} to verify parallel algorithms"
,month="August"
,day="1"
,year="2007"
@@ -669,6 +1703,50 @@ Revised:
,annotation="
LWN article describing Promela and spin, and also using Oleg
Nesterov's QRCU as an example (with Paul McKenney's fastpath).
+ Merged patch at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/25/18
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007WG21DDOatomics
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Hans-J. Boehm and Lawrence Crowl"
+,Title="C++ Data-Dependency Ordering: Atomics and Memory Model"
+,month="August"
+,day="3"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm}
+[Viewed December 7, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU for C++, parts 1 and 2.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007WG21DDOannotation
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Lawrence Crowl"
+,Title="C++ Data-Dependency Ordering: Function Annotation"
+,month="September"
+,day="18"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2782.htm}
+[Viewed December 7, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ RCU for C++, part 2, updated many times.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCUPatch
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="[PATCH RFC 0/9] {RCU}: Preemptible {RCU}"
+,month="September"
+,day="10"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/10/213}
+[Viewed October 25, 2007]"
+,annotation="
+ Final patch for preemptable RCU to -rt. (Later patches were
+ to mainline, eventually incorporated.)
"
}
@@ -686,10 +1764,47 @@ Revised:
"
}
+@article{ThomasEHart2007a
+,Author="Thomas E. Hart and Paul E. McKenney and Angela Demke Brown and Jonathan Walpole"
+,Title="Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization"
+,journal="J. Parallel Distrib. Comput."
+,volume={67}
+,number="12"
+,year="2007"
+,issn="0743-7315"
+,pages="1270--1285"
+,doi="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.04.010"
+,publisher="Academic Press, Inc."
+,address="Orlando, FL, USA"
+,annotation={
+ Compares QSBR, HPBR, EBR, and lock-free reference counting.
+ Journal version of ThomasEHart2006a.
+}
+}
+
+# MathieuDesnoyers2007call_rcu_schedNeeded
+@unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2007call:rcu:schedNeeded
+,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers"
+,Title="Re: [patch 1/2] {Linux} Kernel Markers - Support Multiple Probes"
+,month="December"
+,day="20"
+,year="2007"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/20/244}
+[Viewed March 27, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Request for call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched().
+"
+}
+
+
########################################################################
#
# "What is RCU?" LWN series.
#
+# http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/ (What is RCU, Fundamentally?)
+# http://lwn.net/Articles/263130/ (What is RCU's Usage?)
+# http://lwn.net/Articles/264090/ (What is RCU's API?)
@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007WhatIsRCUFundamentally
,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
@@ -723,7 +1838,7 @@ Revised:
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
+ 6. RCU is a Way of Waiting for Things to Finish
"
}
@@ -747,20 +1862,99 @@ Revised:
#
########################################################################
+
+@unpublished{SteveRostedt2008dyntickRCUpatch
+,Author="Steven Rostedt and Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="{[PATCH]} add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu"
+,month="January"
+,day="29"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/29/208}
+[Viewed March 27, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Patch that prevents preemptible RCU from unnecessarily waking
+ up dynticks-idle CPUs.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008LKMLDependencyOrdering
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Re: [PATCH 02/22 -v7] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation"
+,month="February"
+,day="1"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/255}
+[Viewed October 18, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Explanation of compilers violating dependency ordering.
+"
+}
+
+@Conference{PaulEMcKenney2008Beijing
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Introducing Technology Into {Linux} Or:
+Introducing your technology Into {Linux} will require introducing a
+lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
+,Booktitle="2008 Linux Developer Symposium - China"
+,Publisher="OSS China"
+,Month="February"
+,Year="2008"
+,Address="Beijing, China"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/TechIntroLinux.2008.02.19a.pdf}
+[Viewed August 12, 2008]"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008dynticksRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Steven Rostedt"
+,Title="Integrating and Validating dynticks and Preemptable RCU"
+,month="April"
+,day="24"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/279077/}
+[Viewed April 24, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Describes use of Promela and Spin to validate (and fix!) the
+ dynticks/RCU interface.
+"
+}
+
@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"
+,Month="May"
,journal="IBM Systems Journal"
,volume="47"
,number="2"
-,pages="@@-@@"
+,pages="221-236"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/472/guniguntala.pdf}
+[Viewed April 24, 2008]"
,annotation="
RCU, realtime RCU, sleepable RCU, performance.
"
}
+@unpublished{LaiJiangshan2008NewClassicAlgorithm
+,Author="Lai Jiangshan"
+,Title="[{RFC}][{PATCH}] rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing"
+,month="June"
+,day="3"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539}
+[Viewed December 10, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Updated RCU classic algorithm. Introduced multi-tailed list
+ for RCU callbacks and also pulling common code into
+ __call_rcu().
+"
+}
+
@article{PaulEMcKenney2008RCUOSR
,author="Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
,title="Introducing technology into the {Linux} kernel: a case study"
@@ -778,6 +1972,52 @@ Revised:
}
}
+@unpublished{ManfredSpraul2008StateMachineRCU
+,Author="Manfred Spraul"
+,Title="[{RFC}, {PATCH}] state machine based rcu"
+,month="August"
+,day="21"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/21/336}
+[Viewed December 8, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ State-based RCU. One key thing that this patch does is to
+ separate the dynticks handling of NMIs and IRQs.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{ManfredSpraul2008dyntickIRQNMI
+,Author="Manfred Spraul"
+,Title="Re: [{RFC}, {PATCH}] v4 scalable classic {RCU} implementation"
+,month="September"
+,day="6"
+,year="2008"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/6/86}
+[Viewed December 8, 2008]"
+,annotation="
+ Manfred notes a fix required to my attempt to separate irq
+ and NMI processing for hierarchical RCU's dynticks interface.
+"
+}
+
+@techreport{PaulEMcKenney2011cyclicRCU
+,author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,title="Efficient Support of Consistent Cyclic Search With Read-Copy Update"
+,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
+,address="Washington, DC"
+,year="2008"
+,number="US Patent 7,426,511"
+,month="September"
+,pages="23"
+,annotation="
+ Maintains an additional level of indirection to allow
+ readers to confine themselves to the desired snapshot of the
+ data structure. Only permits one update at a time.
+"
+}
+
@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008HierarchicalRCU
,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
,Title="Hierarchical {RCU}"
@@ -793,6 +2033,21 @@ Revised:
"
}
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009BloatwatchRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Re: [PATCH fyi] RCU: the bloatwatch edition"
+,month="January"
+,day="14"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/14/449}
+[Viewed January 15, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Small-footprint implementation of RCU for uniprocessor
+ embedded applications -- and also for exposition purposes.
+"
+}
+
@conference{PaulEMcKenney2009MaliciousURCU
,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
,Title="Using a Malicious User-Level {RCU} to Torture {RCU}-Based Algorithms"
@@ -816,15 +2071,17 @@ Revised:
,year="2009"
,note="Available:
\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/572}
-\url{git://lttng.org/userspace-rcu.git}
+\url{http://lttng.org/urcu}
[Viewed February 20, 2009]"
,annotation="
Mathieu Desnoyers's user-space RCU implementation.
git://lttng.org/userspace-rcu.git
+ http://lttng.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=userspace-rcu.git
+ http://lttng.org/urcu
"
}
-@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009LWNBloatWatchRCU
,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
,Title="{RCU}: The {Bloatwatch} Edition"
,month="March"
@@ -838,6 +2095,21 @@ Revised:
"
}
+@unpublished{EvgeniyPolyakov2009EllipticsNetwork
+,Author="Evgeniy Polyakov"
+,Title="The Elliptics Network"
+,month="April"
+,day="17"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.ioremap.net/projects/elliptics}
+[Viewed April 30, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Distributed hash table with transactions, using elliptic
+ hash functions to distribute data.
+"
+}
+
@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU
,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
,Title="[{PATCH} -tip 0/3] expedited 'big hammer' {RCU} grace periods"
@@ -852,6 +2124,20 @@ Revised:
"
}
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009fastRTRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="[{PATCH} {RFC} -tip 0/4] {RCU} cleanups and simplified preemptable {RCU}"
+,month="July"
+,day="23"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/23/294}
+[Viewed August 15, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ First posting of simple and fast preemptable RCU.
+"
+}
+
@unpublished{JoshTriplett2009RPHash
,Author="Josh Triplett"
,Title="Scalable concurrent hash tables via relativistic programming"
@@ -860,6 +2146,7 @@ Revised:
,note="Linux Plumbers Conference presentation"
,annotation="
RP fun with hash tables.
+ Superseded by JoshTriplett2010RPHash
"
}
@@ -872,4 +2159,323 @@ Revised:
,note="Available:
\url{http://www.lttng.org/pub/thesis/desnoyers-dissertation-2009-12.pdf}
[Viewed December 9, 2009]"
+,annotation={
+ Chapter 6 (page 97) covers user-level RCU.
+}
+}
+
+@unpublished{RelativisticProgrammingWiki
+,Author="Josh Triplett and Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
+,Title="Relativistic Programming"
+,month="September"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/rp/}
+[Viewed December 9, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Main Relativistic Programming Wiki.
+"
+}
+
+@conference{PaulEMcKenney2009DeterministicRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Deterministic Synchronization in Multicore Systems: the Role of {RCU}"
+,Booktitle="Eleventh Real Time Linux Workshop"
+,month="September"
+,year="2009"
+,address="Dresden, Germany"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/realtime/paper/DetSyncRCU.2009.08.18a.pdf}
+[Viewed January 14, 2009]"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009HuntingHeisenbugs
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Hunting Heisenbugs"
+,month="November"
+,year="2009"
+,day="1"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://paulmck.livejournal.com/14639.html}
+[Viewed June 4, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ Day-one bug in Tree RCU that took forever to track down.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009defer:rcu
+,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers"
+,Title="Kernel RCU: shrink the size of the struct rcu\_head"
+,month="December"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/18/129}
+[Viewed December 29, 2009]"
+,annotation="
+ Mathieu proposed defer_rcu() with fixed-size per-thread pool
+ of RCU callbacks.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009VerifPrePub
+,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney and Michel R. Dagenais"
+,Title="Multi-Core Systems Modeling for Formal Verification of Parallel Algorithms"
+,month="December"
+,year="2009"
+,note="Submitted to IEEE TPDS"
+,annotation="
+ OOMem model for Mathieu's user-level RCU mechanical proof of
+ correctness.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009URCUPrePub
+,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney and Alan Stern and Michel R. Dagenais and Jonathan Walpole"
+,Title="User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update"
+,month="December"
+,year="2010"
+,url=\url{http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/td/2012/02/ttd2012020375-abs.html}
+,annotation="
+ RCU overview, desiderata, semi-formal semantics, user-level RCU
+ usage scenarios, three classes of RCU implementation, wait-free
+ RCU updates, RCU grace-period batching, update overhead,
+ http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/urcu-main-accepted.2011.08.30a.pdf
+ http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/urcu-supp-accepted.2011.08.30a.pdf
+ Superseded by MathieuDesnoyers2012URCU.
+"
+}
+
+@inproceedings{HariKannan2009DynamicAnalysisRCU
+,author = {Kannan, Hari}
+,title = {Ordering decoupled metadata accesses in multiprocessors}
+,booktitle = {MICRO 42: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture}
+,year = {2009}
+,isbn = {978-1-60558-798-1}
+,pages = {381--390}
+,location = {New York, New York}
+,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1669112.1669161}
+,publisher = {ACM}
+,address = {New York, NY, USA}
+,annotation={
+ Uses RCU to protect metadata used in dynamic analysis.
+}}
+
+@conference{PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Simplicity Through Optimization"
+,Booktitle="linux.conf.au 2010"
+,month="January"
+,year="2010"
+,address="Wellington, New Zealand"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/SimplicityThruOptimization.2010.01.21f.pdf}
+[Viewed October 10, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ TREE_PREEMPT_RCU optimizations greatly simplified the old
+ PREEMPT_RCU implementation.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="Lockdep-{RCU}"
+,month="February"
+,year="2010"
+,day="1"
+,note="Available:
+\url{https://lwn.net/Articles/371986/}
+[Viewed June 4, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, or at least an early version.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{AviKivity2010KVM2RCU
+,Author="Avi Kivity"
+,Title="[{PATCH} 37/40] {KVM}: Bump maximum vcpu count to 64"
+,month="February"
+,year="2010"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg28640.html}
+[Viewed March 20, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ Use of RCU permits KVM to increase the size of guest OSes from
+ 16 CPUs to 64 CPUs.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash
+,Author="Herbert Xu"
+,Title="bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support"
+,month="February"
+,year="2010"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/2/26/6270589}
+[Viewed March 20, 2011]"
+,annotation={
+ Use a pair of list_head structures to support RCU-protected
+ resizable hash tables.
+}}
+
+@article{JoshTriplett2010RPHash
+,author="Josh Triplett and Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
+,title="Scalable Concurrent Hash Tables via Relativistic Programming"
+,journal="ACM Operating Systems Review"
+,year=2010
+,volume=44
+,number=3
+,month="July"
+,annotation={
+ RP fun with hash tables.
+ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1842733.1842750
+}}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="The {RCU} {API}, 2010 Edition"
+,month="December"
+,day="8"
+,year="2010"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/418853/}
+[Viewed December 8, 2010]"
+,annotation="
+ Includes updated software-engineering features.
+"
+}
+
+@mastersthesis{AndrejPodzimek2010masters
+,author="Andrej Podzimek"
+,title="Read-Copy-Update for OpenSolaris"
+,school="Charles University in Prague"
+,year="2010"
+,note="Available:
+\url{https://andrej.podzimek.org/thesis.pdf}
+[Viewed January 31, 2011]"
+,annotation={
+ Reviews RCU implementations and creates a few for OpenSolaris.
+ Drives quiescent-state detection from RCU read-side primitives,
+ in a manner roughly similar to that of Jim Houston.
+}}
+
+@unpublished{LinusTorvalds2011Linux2:6:38:rc1:NPigginVFS
+,Author="Linus Torvalds"
+,Title="Linux 2.6.38-rc1"
+,month="January"
+,year="2011"
+,note="Available:
+\url{https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/18/322}
+[Viewed March 4, 2011]"
+,annotation={
+ "The RCU-based name lookup is at the other end of the spectrum - the
+ absolute anti-gimmick. It's some seriously good stuff, and gets rid of
+ the last main global lock that really tends to hurt some kernel loads.
+ The dentry lock is no longer a big serializing issue. What's really
+ nice about it is that it actually improves performance a lot even for
+ single-threaded loads (on an SMP kernel), because it gets rid of some
+ of the most expensive parts of path component lookup, which was the
+ d_lock on every component lookup. So I'm seeing improvements of 30-50%
+ on some seriously pathname-lookup intensive loads."
+}}
+
+@techreport{JoshTriplett2011RPScalableCorrectOrdering
+,author = {Josh Triplett and Philip W. Howard and Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole}
+,title = {Scalable Correct Memory Ordering via Relativistic Programming}
+,year = {2011}
+,number = {11-03}
+,institution = {Portland State University}
+,note = {\url{http://www.cs.pdx.edu/pdfs/tr1103.pdf}}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{PhilHoward2011RCUTMRBTree
+,author = {Philip W. Howard and Jonathan Walpole}
+,title = {A Relativistic Enhancement to Software Transactional Memory}
+,booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in parallelism}
+,series = {HotPar'11}
+,year = {2011}
+,location = {Berkeley, CA}
+,pages = {1--6}
+,numpages = {6}
+,url = {http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar11/tech/final_files/Howard.pdf}
+,publisher = {USENIX Association}
+,address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}
+}
+
+@techreport{PaulEMcKenney2011cyclicparallelRCU
+,author="Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole"
+,title="Efficient Support of Consistent Cyclic Search With Read-Copy Update and Parallel Updates"
+,institution="US Patent and Trademark Office"
+,address="Washington, DC"
+,year="2011"
+,number="US Patent 7,953,778"
+,month="May"
+,pages="34"
+,annotation="
+ Maintains an array of generation numbers to track in-flight
+ updates and keeps an additional level of indirection to allow
+ readers to confine themselves to the desired snapshot of the
+ data structure.
+"
+}
+
+@inproceedings{Triplett:2011:RPHash
+,author = {Triplett, Josh and McKenney, Paul E. and Walpole, Jonathan}
+,title = {Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Tables via Relativistic Programming}
+,booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference}
+,month = {June}
+,year = {2011}
+,pages = {145--158}
+,numpages = {14}
+,url={http://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/atc11_proceedings.pdf}
+,publisher = {The USENIX Association}
+,address = {Portland, OR USA}
+}
+
+@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2011RCU3.0trainwreck
+,Author="Paul E. McKenney"
+,Title="3.0 and {RCU:} what went wrong"
+,month="July"
+,day="27"
+,year="2011"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/453002/}
+[Viewed July 27, 2011]"
+,annotation="
+ Analysis of the RCU trainwreck in Linux kernel 3.0.
+"
+}
+
+@unpublished{NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers
+,Author="Neil Brown"
+,Title="Meet the Lockers"
+,month="August"
+,day="3"
+,year="2011"
+,note="Available:
+\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/453685/}
+[Viewed September 2, 2011]"
+,annotation="
+ The Locker family as an analogy for locking, reference counting,
+ RCU, and seqlock.
+"
+}
+
+@article{MathieuDesnoyers2012URCU
+,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney and Alan Stern and Michel R. Dagenais and Jonathan Walpole"
+,Title="User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update"
+,journal="IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems"
+,volume={23}
+,year="2012"
+,issn="1045-9219"
+,pages="375-382"
+,doi="http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2011.159"
+,publisher="IEEE Computer Society"
+,address="Los Alamitos, CA, USA"
+,annotation={
+ RCU overview, desiderata, semi-formal semantics, user-level RCU
+ usage scenarios, three classes of RCU implementation, wait-free
+ RCU updates, RCU grace-period batching, update overhead,
+ http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/urcu-main-accepted.2011.08.30a.pdf
+ http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/urcu-supp-accepted.2011.08.30a.pdf
+}
}