From dd81eca83c8300c95d8a1eaf0d38f56513711535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:26:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Yet another RCU documentation update Update RCU documentation based on discussions and review of RCU-based tree patches. Add an introductory whatisRCU.txt file. Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 9c6d450..fcbcbc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Read the F-ing Papers! This document describes RCU-related publications, and is followed by -the corresponding bibtex entries. +the corresponding bibtex entries. A number of the publications may +be found at http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/. The first thing resembling RCU was published in 1980, when Kung and Lehman [Kung80] recommended use of a garbage collector to defer destruction @@ -113,6 +114,10 @@ describing how to make RCU safe for soft-realtime applications [Sarma04c], and a paper describing SELinux performance with RCU [JamesMorris04b]. +2005 has seen further adaptation of RCU to realtime use, permitting +preemption of RCU realtime critical sections [PaulMcKenney05a, +PaulMcKenney05b]. + Bibtex Entries @article{Kung80 @@ -410,3 +415,32 @@ Oregon Health and Sciences University" \url{http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/2153.html} [Viewed December 10, 2004]" } + +@unpublished{PaulMcKenney05a +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="{[RFC]} {RCU} and {CONFIG\_PREEMPT\_RT} progress" +,month="May" +,year="2005" +,note="Available: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. +" +} -- cgit v1.1