From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu,
Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
tglx@linutronix.de, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] priority-boost urcu
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:30:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313674225.15704.68.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110818122828.GB31100@Krystal>
[ not sure who wrote this but...]
> > > What we should introduce is abstractions over futexes. This is what
> > > I did to experimentally port URCU to QEMU---my secret goal since
> > > commit 806f811 (use kernel style makefile output, 2010-03-01). :)
> > > Our use of futexes is exceptionally similar to a Windows
> > > manual-reset event (yes, Windows:
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.manualresetevent%28v=vs.80%29.aspx).
> > > In QEMU I added the manual-reset event and use it in the
> > > implementation of RCU.
Be careful with this. You better make sure that Microsoft does not hold
any patents to this method, otherwise all your work will be in vain.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-18 13:30 UTC|newest]
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2011-08-18 12:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-08-18 13:30 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2011-08-22 9:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
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