--- zzzz-none-000/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt 2017-06-27 09:49:32.000000000 +0000 +++ scorpion-7490-727/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt 2021-02-04 17:41:59.000000000 +0000 @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ (In contrast, implementation of RCU is permitted only in software licensed under either GPL or LGPL. Sorry!!!) +In 1987, Rashid et al. described lazy TLB-flush [RichardRashid87a]. +At first glance, this has nothing to do with RCU, but nevertheless +this paper helped inspire the update-side batching used in the later +RCU implementation in DYNIX/ptx. In 1988, Barbara Liskov published +a description of Argus that noted that use of out-of-date values can +be tolerated in some situations. Thus, this paper provides some early +theoretical justification for use of stale data. + In 1990, Pugh [Pugh90] noted that explicitly tracking which threads were reading a given data structure permitted deferred free to operate in the presence of non-terminating threads. However, this explicit @@ -39,13 +47,13 @@ write-side contention and parallelize the other write-side overheads by providing a fine-grained locking design, however, it would be interesting to see how much of the performance advantage reported in 1990 remains -in 2004. +today. -At about this same time, Adams [Adams91] described ``chaotic relaxation'', -where the normal barriers between successive iterations of convergent -numerical algorithms are relaxed, so that iteration $n$ might use -data from iteration $n-1$ or even $n-2$. This introduces error, -which typically slows convergence and thus increases the number of +At about this same time, Andrews [Andrews91textbook] described ``chaotic +relaxation'', where the normal barriers between successive iterations +of convergent numerical algorithms are relaxed, so that iteration $n$ +might use data from iteration $n-1$ or even $n-2$. This introduces +error, which typically slows convergence and thus increases the number of iterations required. However, this increase is sometimes more than made up for by a reduction in the number of expensive barrier operations, which are otherwise required to synchronize the threads at the end @@ -55,7 +63,8 @@ In 1992, Henry (now Alexia) Massalin completed a dissertation advising parallel programmers to defer processing when feasible to simplify -synchronization. RCU makes extremely heavy use of this advice. +synchronization [HMassalinPhD]. RCU makes extremely heavy use of +this advice. In 1993, Jacobson [Jacobson93] verbally described what is perhaps the simplest deferred-free technique: simply waiting a fixed amount of time @@ -86,28 +95,33 @@ [McKenney98]. In 1999, the Tornado and K42 groups described their "generations" -mechanism, which quite similar to RCU [Gamsa99]. These operating systems -made pervasive use of RCU in place of "existence locks", which greatly -simplifies locking hierarchies. - -2001 saw the first RCU presentation involving Linux [McKenney01a] -at OLS. The resulting abundance of RCU patches was presented the -following year [McKenney02a], and use of RCU in dcache was first -described that same year [Linder02a]. +mechanism, which is quite similar to RCU [Gamsa99]. These operating +systems made pervasive use of RCU in place of "existence locks", which +greatly simplifies locking hierarchies and helps avoid deadlocks. + +The year 2000 saw an email exchange that would likely have +led to yet another independent invention of something like RCU +[RustyRussell2000a,RustyRussell2000b]. Instead, 2001 saw the first +RCU presentation involving Linux [McKenney01a] at OLS. The resulting +abundance of RCU patches was presented the following year [McKenney02a], +and use of RCU in dcache was first described that same year [Linder02a]. Also in 2002, Michael [Michael02b,Michael02a] presented "hazard-pointer" techniques that defer the destruction of data structures to simplify non-blocking synchronization (wait-free synchronization, lock-free synchronization, and obstruction-free synchronization are all examples of -non-blocking synchronization). In particular, this technique eliminates -locking, reduces contention, reduces memory latency for readers, and -parallelizes pipeline stalls and memory latency for writers. However, -these techniques still impose significant read-side overhead in the -form of memory barriers. Researchers at Sun worked along similar lines -in the same timeframe [HerlihyLM02]. These techniques can be thought -of as inside-out reference counts, where the count is represented by the -number of hazard pointers referencing a given data structure (rather than -the more conventional counter field within the data structure itself). +non-blocking synchronization). The corresponding journal article appeared +in 2004 [MagedMichael04a]. This technique eliminates locking, reduces +contention, reduces memory latency for readers, and parallelizes pipeline +stalls and memory latency for writers. However, these techniques still +impose significant read-side overhead in the form of memory barriers. +Researchers at Sun worked along similar lines in the same timeframe +[HerlihyLM02]. These techniques can be thought of as inside-out reference +counts, where the count is represented by the number of hazard pointers +referencing a given data structure rather than the more conventional +counter field within the data structure itself. The key advantage +of inside-out reference counts is that they can be stored in immortal +variables, thus allowing races between access and deletion to be avoided. By the same token, RCU can be thought of as a "bulk reference count", where some form of reference counter covers all reference by a given CPU @@ -120,8 +134,10 @@ In 2003, the K42 group described how RCU could be used to create hot-pluggable implementations of operating-system functions [Appavoo03a]. -Later that year saw a paper describing an RCU implementation of System -V IPC [Arcangeli03], and an introduction to RCU in Linux Journal +Later that year saw a paper describing an RCU implementation +of System V IPC [Arcangeli03] (following up on a suggestion by +Hugh Dickins [Dickins02a] and an implementation by Mingming Cao +[MingmingCao2002IPCRCU]), and an introduction to RCU in Linux Journal [McKenney03a]. 2004 has seen a Linux-Journal article on use of RCU in dcache @@ -179,7 +195,25 @@ (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]. +Lockers" LWN article [NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers]. Some academic +work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425]. + +In 2012, Josh Triplett received his Ph.D. with his dissertation +covering RCU-protected resizable hash tables and the relationship +between memory barriers and read-side traversal order: If the updater +is making changes in the opposite direction from the read-side traveral +order, the updater need only execute a memory-barrier instruction, +but if in the same direction, the updater needs to wait for a grace +period between the individual updates [JoshTriplettPhD]. Also in 2012, +after seventeen years of attempts, an RCU paper made it into a top-flight +academic journal, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems +[MathieuDesnoyers2012URCU]. A group of researchers in Spain applied +user-level RCU to crowd simulation [GuillermoVigueras2012RCUCrowd], and +another group of researchers in Europe produced a formal description of +RCU based on separation logic [AlexeyGotsman2012VerifyGraceExtended], +which was published in the 2013 European Symposium on Programming +[AlexeyGotsman2013ESOPRCU]. + Bibtex Entries @@ -193,13 +227,12 @@ ,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. + http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320619&dl=GUIDE, + [Viewed December 3, 2007] } } @@ -309,7 +342,7 @@ ,doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/42392.42399} ,publisher = {ACM} ,address = {New York, NY, USA} -,annotation= { +,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 @@ -346,8 +379,9 @@ } } -@Book{Adams91 -,Author="Gregory R. Adams" +# Was Adams91, see also syncrefs.bib. +@Book{Andrews91textbook +,Author="Gregory R. Andrews" ,title="Concurrent Programming, Principles, and Practices" ,Publisher="Benjamin Cummins" ,Year="1991" @@ -362,6 +396,21 @@ } } +@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. See page 90 + (PDF page 106), Section 5.4, fourth bullet point. +} +} + @unpublished{Jacobson93 ,author="Van Jacobson" ,title="Avoid Read-Side Locking Via Delayed Free" @@ -398,39 +447,39 @@ } } -@conference{Pu95a, -Author = "Calton Pu and Tito Autrey and Andrew Black and Charles Consel and +@conference{Pu95a +,Author = "Calton Pu and Tito Autrey and Andrew Black and Charles Consel and Crispin Cowan and Jon Inouye and Lakshmi Kethana and Jonathan Walpole and -Ke Zhang", -Title = "Optimistic Incremental Specialization: Streamlining a Commercial -Operating System", -Booktitle = "15\textsuperscript{th} ACM Symposium on -Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'95)", -address = "Copper Mountain, CO", -month="December", -year="1995", -pages="314-321", -annotation=" +Ke Zhang" +,Title = "Optimistic Incremental Specialization: Streamlining a Commercial +,Operating System" +,Booktitle = "15\textsuperscript{th} ACM Symposium on +,Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'95)" +,address = "Copper Mountain, CO" +,month="December" +,year="1995" +,pages="314-321" +,annotation={ Uses a replugger, but with a flag to signal when people are using the resource at hand. Only one reader at a time. -" +} } -@conference{Cowan96a, -Author = "Crispin Cowan and Tito Autrey and Charles Krasic and -Calton Pu and Jonathan Walpole", -Title = "Fast Concurrent Dynamic Linking for an Adaptive Operating System", -Booktitle = "International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems -(ICCDS'96)", -address = "Annapolis, MD", -month="May", -year="1996", -pages="108", -isbn="0-8186-7395-8", -annotation=" +@conference{Cowan96a +,Author = "Crispin Cowan and Tito Autrey and Charles Krasic and +,Calton Pu and Jonathan Walpole" +,Title = "Fast Concurrent Dynamic Linking for an Adaptive Operating System" +,Booktitle = "International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems +(ICCDS'96)" +,address = "Annapolis, MD" +,month="May" +,year="1996" +,pages="108" +,isbn="0-8186-7395-8" +,annotation={ Uses a replugger, but with a counter to signal when people are using the resource at hand. Allows multiple readers. -" +} } @techreport{Slingwine95 @@ -493,14 +542,13 @@ ,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. + http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rclockpdcsproof.pdf + [Viewed December 3, 2007] } } @@ -514,13 +562,12 @@ ,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). + http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi99/full_papers/gamsa/gamsa.pdf + [Viewed August 30, 2006] } } @@ -611,9 +658,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100259266316456&w=2} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Memory-barrier and Alpha thread. 100 messages, not too bad... -" +} } @unpublished{Spraul01 @@ -624,10 +671,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100264675012867&w=2} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Suggested burying memory barriers in Linux's list-manipulation primitives. -" +} } @unpublished{LinusTorvalds2001a @@ -638,6 +685,8 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/10/13/105} [Viewed August 21, 2004]" +,annotation={ +} } @unpublished{Blanchard02a @@ -650,6 +699,20 @@ [Viewed October 18, 2004]" } +@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" +,annotation={ +Like the title says... +} +} + @Conference{Linder02a ,Author="Hanna Linder and Dipankar Sarma and Maneesh Soni" ,Title="Scalability of the Directory Entry Cache" @@ -657,10 +720,10 @@ ,Month="June" ,Year="2002" ,pages="289-300" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Measured scalability of Linux 2.4 kernel's directory-entry cache (dcache), and measured some scalability enhancements. -" +} } @Conference{McKenney02a @@ -674,10 +737,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.linux.org.uk/~ajh/ols2002_proceedings.pdf.gz} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Presented and compared a number of RCU implementations for the Linux kernel. -" +} } @unpublished{Sarma02a @@ -688,9 +751,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102645767914212&w=2} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Compare fastwalk and RCU for dcache. RCU won. -" +} } @unpublished{Barbieri02 @@ -701,9 +764,27 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103082050621241&w=2} [Viewed: June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Suggested RCU for vfs\_shared\_cred. -" +} +} + +@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" +,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. +} } @unpublished{Dickins02a @@ -714,6 +795,17 @@ ,note="private communication" } +@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 +,month="October" +,pages="339-353" +} + @unpublished{Sarma02b ,Author="Dipankar Sarma" ,Title="Some dcache\_rcu benchmark numbers" @@ -722,10 +814,23 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103462075416638&w=2} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,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{MingmingCao2002IPCRCU +,Author="Mingming Cao" +,Title="[PATCH]updated ipc lock patch" +,month="October" +,year="2002" +,note="Available: +\url{https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/10/24/262} +[Viewed February 15, 2014]" +,annotation={ + Mingming Cao's patch to introduce RCU to SysV IPC. +} } @unpublished{LinusTorvalds2003a @@ -736,14 +841,14 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/9/205} [Viewed March 13, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -758,9 +863,9 @@ ,volume="42" ,number="1" ,pages="60-76" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Use of RCU to enable hot-swapping for autonomic behavior in K42. -" +} } @unpublished{Seigh03 @@ -769,9 +874,9 @@ ,Year="2003" ,Month="March" ,note="email correspondence" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Described the relationship of the VM/XA passive serialization to RCU. -" +} } @Conference{Arcangeli03 @@ -785,14 +890,12 @@ ,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=" +,annotation={ Compared updated RCU implementations for the Linux kernel, and described System V IPC use of RCU, including order-of-magnitude performance improvements. -" + http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rcu.FREENIX.2003.06.14.pdf +} } @Conference{Soules03a @@ -820,10 +923,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6993} [Viewed November 14, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Reader-friendly intro to RCU, with the infamous old-man-and-brat cartoon. -" +} } @unpublished{Sarma03a @@ -832,7 +935,9 @@ ,month="December" ,year="2003" ,note="Message ID: 20031222180114.GA2248@in.ibm.com" -,annotation="dipankar/ct.2004.03.27/RCUll.2003.12.22.patch" +,annotation={ + dipankar/ct.2004.03.27/RCUll.2003.12.22.patch +} } @techreport{Friedberg03a @@ -844,11 +949,11 @@ ,number="US Patent 6,662,184" ,month="December" ,pages="112" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -860,12 +965,11 @@ ,volume="1" ,number="118" ,pages="38-46" -,note="Available: -\url{http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7124} -[Viewed December 26, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Reader friendly intro to dcache and RCU. -" + http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7124 + [Viewed December 26, 2010] +} } @Conference{McKenney04b @@ -879,10 +983,10 @@ \url{http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/abstracts.html#90} \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/lockperf.2004.01.17a.pdf} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Compares performance of RCU to that of other locking primitives over a number of CPUs (x86, Opteron, Itanium, and PPC). -" +} } @unpublished{Sarma04a @@ -891,7 +995,9 @@ ,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" +,annotation={ + Head of thread: dipankar/2004.03.23/rcu-low-lat.1.patch +} } @unpublished{Sarma04b @@ -900,7 +1006,9 @@ ,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" +,annotation={ + dipankar/rcuth.2004.03.24/rcu-throttle.patch +} } @unpublished{Spraul04a @@ -911,9 +1019,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546407726602&w=2} [Viewed June 23, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Hierarchical-bitmap patch for RCU infrastructure. -" +} } @unpublished{Steiner04a @@ -950,10 +1058,29 @@ ,year="2004" ,month="June" ,pages="182-191" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Describes and compares a number of modifications to the Linux RCU implementation that make it friendly to realtime applications. -" + https://www.usenix.org/conference/2004-usenix-annual-technical-conference/making-rcu-safe-deep-sub-millisecond-response + [Viewed July 26, 2012] +} +} + +@article{MagedMichael04a +,author="Maged M. Michael" +,title="Hazard Pointers: Safe Memory Reclamation for Lock-Free Objects" +,Year="2004" +,Month="June" +,journal="IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems" +,volume="15" +,number="6" +,pages="491-504" +,url="Available: +\url{http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/ieeetpds-2004.pdf} +[Viewed March 1, 2005]" +,annotation={ + New canonical hazard-pointer citation. +} } @phdthesis{PaulEdwardMcKenneyPhD @@ -964,14 +1091,13 @@ ,school="OGI School of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health and Sciences University" ,year="2004" -,note="Available: -\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf} -[Viewed October 15, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Describes RCU implementations and presents design patterns corresponding to common uses of RCU in several operating-system kernels. -" + http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf + [Viewed October 15, 2004] +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2004rcu:dereference @@ -982,9 +1108,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/6/237} [Viewed June 8, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Introduce rcu_dereference(). -" +} } @unpublished{JimHouston04a @@ -995,11 +1121,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/30/87} [Viewed February 17, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ 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. -" +} } @unpublished{TomHart04a @@ -1010,9 +1136,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tomhart/masters_thesis.html} [Viewed October 15, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Proposes comparing RCU to lock-free methods for the Linux kernel. -" +} } @unpublished{Vaddagiri04a @@ -1023,9 +1149,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109395731700004&r=1&w=2} [Viewed October 18, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Srivatsa's RCU patch for tcp_ehash lookup. -" +} } @unpublished{Thirumalai04a @@ -1036,9 +1162,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109144217400003&r=1&w=2} [Viewed October 18, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Ravikiran's lockfree FD patch. -" +} } @unpublished{Thirumalai04b @@ -1049,9 +1175,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109152521410459&w=2} [Viewed October 18, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Ravikiran's lockfree FD patch. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2004rcu:assign:pointer @@ -1062,9 +1188,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/241} [Viewed June 8, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Introduce rcu_assign_pointer(). -" +} } @unpublished{JamesMorris04a @@ -1073,12 +1199,12 @@ ,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=" +,note="\url{http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110054979416004&w=2}" +,annotation={ James Morris posts Kaigai Kohei's patch to LKML. -" + [Viewed December 10, 2004] + Kaigai's patch is at https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/27/52 +} } @unpublished{JamesMorris04b @@ -1089,9 +1215,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_morris/2153.html} [Viewed December 10, 2004]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU helps SELinux performance. ;-) Made LWN. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005RCUSemantics @@ -1103,9 +1229,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/rcu-semantics.2005.01.30a.pdf} [Viewed December 6, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Early derivation of RCU semantics. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005e @@ -1117,10 +1243,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/17/199} [Viewed September 5, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First posting showing how RCU can be safely adapted for preemptable RCU read side critical sections. -" +} } @unpublished{EsbenNeilsen2005a @@ -1132,12 +1258,12 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/18/122} [Viewed March 30, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,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 + is indefinite grace periods... But this is OK for experimentation and testing. -" +} } @unpublished{TomHart05a @@ -1149,10 +1275,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/csrg-technical-reports/515/} [Viewed March 4, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Comparison of RCU, QBSR, and EBSR. RCU wins for read-mostly workloads. ;-) -" +} } @unpublished{JonCorbet2005DeprecateSyncKernel @@ -1164,10 +1290,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/134484/} [Viewed May 3, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Jon Corbet describes deprecation of synchronize_kernel() in favor of synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched(). -" +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney05a @@ -1178,10 +1304,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/9/185} [Viewed May 13, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First publication of working lock-based deferred free patches for the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT environment. -" +} } @conference{PaulMcKenney05b @@ -1194,10 +1320,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/realtimeRCU.2005.04.23a.pdf} [Viewed May 13, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -1208,9 +1334,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/} [Viewed May 25, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Paul McKenney's home page. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyRCUPage @@ -1221,9 +1347,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU} [Viewed May 25, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Paul McKenney's RCU page. -" +} } @unpublished{JosephSeigh2005a @@ -1232,10 +1358,10 @@ ,month="July" ,year="2005" ,note="Personal communication" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Joe Seigh announcing his atomic-ptr-plus project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/atomic-ptr-plus/ -" +} } @unpublished{JosephSeigh2005b @@ -1247,9 +1373,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/atomic-ptr-plus/} [Viewed August 8, 2005]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Joe Seigh's atomic-ptr-plus project. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005c @@ -1261,9 +1387,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/1/155} [Viewed March 14, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First operating counter-based realtime RCU patch posted to LKML. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney2005d @@ -1275,11 +1401,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/108} [Viewed March 14, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -1291,9 +1417,25 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/1/70} [Viewed March 14, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First rcutorture patch. -" +} +} + +@unpublished{DavidSMiller2006HashedLocking +,Author="David S. Miller" +,Title="Re: [{PATCH}, {RFC}] {RCU} : {OOM} avoidance and lower latency" +,month="January" +,day="6" +,year="2006" +,note="Available: +\url{https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/7/22} +[Viewed February 29, 2012]" +,annotation={ + David Miller's view on hashed arrays of locks: used to really + like it, but time he saw an opportunity for this technique, + something else always proved superior. Partitioning or RCU. ;-) +} } @conference{ThomasEHart2006a @@ -1309,10 +1451,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/hart_ipdps06.pdf} [Viewed April 28, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Compares QSBR, HPBR, EBR, and lock-free reference counting. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tomhart/perflab/ipdps06.tgz -" +} } @unpublished{NickPiggin2006radixtree @@ -1324,9 +1466,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/20/238} [Viewed March 25, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU-protected radix tree. -" +} } @Conference{PaulEMcKenney2006b @@ -1341,9 +1483,9 @@ \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=" +,annotation={ Described how to improve the -rt implementation of realtime RCU. -" +} } @unpublished{WikipediaRCU @@ -1354,12 +1496,11 @@ ,month="July" ,day="8" ,year="2006" -,note="Available: -\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update} -[Viewed August 21, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update}" +,annotation={ Wikipedia RCU page as of July 8 2006. -" + [Viewed August 21, 2006] +} } @Conference{NickPiggin2006LocklessPageCache @@ -1372,9 +1513,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=184} [Viewed January 11, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Uses RCU-protected radix tree for a lockless page cache. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2006c @@ -1388,9 +1529,9 @@ Revised: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/srcu.2007.01.14a.pdf} [Viewed August 21, 2006]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ LWN article introducing SRCU. -" +} } @unpublished{RobertOlsson2006a @@ -1399,12 +1540,11 @@ ,month="August" ,day="18" ,year="2006" -,note="Available: -\url{http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/publications/TRASH/trash.pdf} -[Viewed March 4, 2011]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/publications/TRASH/trash.pdf}" +,annotation={ RCU-protected dynamic trie-hash combination. -" + [Viewed March 4, 2011] +} } @unpublished{ChristophHellwig2006RCU2SRCU @@ -1426,10 +1566,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/linuxusage.html} [Viewed January 14, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Paul McKenney's RCU page showing graphs plotting Linux-kernel usage of RCU. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenneyRCUusageRawDataPage @@ -1440,10 +1580,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/linuxusage/rculocktab.html} [Viewed January 14, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Paul McKenney's RCU page showing Linux usage of RCU in tabular form, with links to corresponding cscope databases. -" +} } @unpublished{GauthamShenoy2006RCUrwlock @@ -1455,13 +1595,13 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/73} [Viewed January 26, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -1474,11 +1614,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/17/56} [Viewed May 28, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -1491,10 +1631,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/19/69} [Viewed May 28, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First cut of QRCU. Expanded/corrected versions followed. Used to be OlegNesterov2007QRCU, now time-corrected. -" +} } @unpublished{OlegNesterov2006aQRCU @@ -1506,10 +1646,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/29/330} [Viewed November 26, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Expanded/corrected version of QRCU. Used to be OlegNesterov2007aQRCU, now time-corrected. -" +} } @unpublished{EvgeniyPolyakov2006RCUslowdown @@ -1521,10 +1661,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.ioremap.net/node/41} [Viewed October 28, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Using RCU as a pure delay leads to a 2.5x slowdown in skbs in the Linux kernel. -" +} } @inproceedings{ChrisMatthews2006ClusteredObjectsRCU @@ -1541,7 +1681,8 @@ ,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} @@ -1557,7 +1698,8 @@ ,address = {New York, NY, USA} ,annotation={ Describes relationship of K42 generations to RCU. -}} +} +} # CoreyMinyard2007list_splice_rcu @unpublished{CoreyMinyard2007list:splice:rcu @@ -1569,9 +1711,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/112} [Viewed May 28, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Patch for list_splice_rcu(). -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007rcubarrier @@ -1583,9 +1725,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/217484/} [Viewed November 22, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ LWN article introducing the rcu_barrier() primitive. -" +} } @unpublished{PeterZijlstra2007SyncBarrier @@ -1597,10 +1739,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/28/34} [Viewed March 27, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU-like implementation for frequent updaters and rare readers(!). Subsumed into QRCU. Maybe... -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007BoostRCU @@ -1609,14 +1751,13 @@ ,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=" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/220677/}" +,annotation={ LWN article introducing RCU priority boosting. -" + Revised: + http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUbooststate.2007.04.16a.pdf + [Viewed September 7, 2007] +} } @unpublished{PaulMcKenney2007QRCUpatch @@ -1628,9 +1769,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/25/18} [Viewed March 27, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Patch for QRCU supplying lock-free fast path. -" +} } @article{JonathanAppavoo2007K42RCU @@ -1647,7 +1788,8 @@ ,address = {New York, NY, USA} ,annotation={ Role of RCU in K42. -}} +} +} @conference{RobertOlsson2007Trash ,Author="Robert Olsson and Stefan Nilsson" @@ -1658,9 +1800,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4281239} [Viewed October 1, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU-protected dynamic trie-hash combination. -" +} } @conference{PeterZijlstra2007ConcurrentPagecacheRCU @@ -1673,10 +1815,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/zijlstra-Reprint.pdf} [Viewed April 14, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Page-cache modifications permitting RCU readers and concurrent updates. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007whatisRCU @@ -1701,11 +1843,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/243851/} [Viewed September 8, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -1714,12 +1856,12 @@ ,month="August" ,day="3" ,year="2007" -,note="Preprint: +,note="Available: \url{http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm} [Viewed December 7, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU for C++, parts 1 and 2. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007WG21DDOannotation @@ -1728,12 +1870,12 @@ ,month="September" ,day="18" ,year="2008" -,note="Preprint: +,note="Available: \url{http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2782.htm} [Viewed December 7, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU for C++, part 2, updated many times. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCUPatch @@ -1745,10 +1887,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/10/213} [Viewed October 25, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Final patch for preemptable RCU to -rt. (Later patches were to mainline, eventually incorporated.) -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2007PreemptibleRCU @@ -1760,9 +1902,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/} [Viewed October 25, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ LWN article describing the design of preemptible RCU. -" +} } @article{ThomasEHart2007a @@ -1783,6 +1925,7 @@ } } +# MathieuDesnoyers2007call_rcu_schedNeeded @unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2007call:rcu:schedNeeded ,Author="Mathieu Desnoyers" ,Title="Re: [patch 1/2] {Linux} Kernel Markers - Support Multiple Probes" @@ -1792,9 +1935,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/20/244} [Viewed March 27, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Request for call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched(). -" +} } @@ -1815,11 +1958,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/} [Viewed December 27, 2007]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Lays out the three basic components of RCU: (1) publish-subscribe, (2) wait for pre-existing readers to complete, and (2) maintain multiple versions. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUUsage @@ -1831,7 +1974,7 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/263130/} [Viewed January 4, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Lays out six uses of RCU: 1. RCU is a Reader-Writer Lock Replacement 2. RCU is a Restricted Reference-Counting Mechanism @@ -1839,7 +1982,7 @@ 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 -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008WhatIsRCUAPI @@ -1851,10 +1994,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/264090/} [Viewed January 10, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Gives an overview of the Linux-kernel RCU API and a brief annotated RCU bibliography. -" +} } # @@ -1872,10 +2015,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/29/208} [Viewed March 27, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Patch that prevents preemptible RCU from unnecessarily waking up dynticks-idle CPUs. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2008LKMLDependencyOrdering @@ -1887,9 +2030,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/255} [Viewed October 18, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Explanation of compilers violating dependency ordering. -" +} } @Conference{PaulEMcKenney2008Beijing @@ -1916,24 +2059,26 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/279077/} [Viewed April 24, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,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-June" +,Month="May" ,journal="IBM Systems Journal" ,volume="47" ,number="2" ,pages="221-236" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ RCU, realtime RCU, sleepable RCU, performance. -" + http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/472/guniguntala.pdf + [Viewed April 24, 2008] +} } @unpublished{LaiJiangshan2008NewClassicAlgorithm @@ -1945,11 +2090,11 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539} [Viewed December 10, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Updated RCU classic algorithm. Introduced multi-tailed list for RCU callbacks and also pulling common code into __call_rcu(). -" +} } @article{PaulEMcKenney2008RCUOSR @@ -1966,6 +2111,7 @@ ,address="New York, NY, USA" ,annotation={ Linux changed RCU to a far greater degree than RCU has changed Linux. + http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1400097.1400099 } } @@ -1978,10 +2124,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/21/336} [Viewed December 8, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ State-based RCU. One key thing that this patch does is to separate the dynticks handling of NMIs and IRQs. -" +} } @unpublished{ManfredSpraul2008dyntickIRQNMI @@ -1993,12 +2139,13 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/6/86} [Viewed December 8, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Manfred notes a fix required to my attempt to separate irq and NMI processing for hierarchical RCU's dynticks interface. -" +} } +# Was PaulEMcKenney2011cyclicRCU @techreport{PaulEMcKenney2008cyclicRCU ,author="Paul E. McKenney" ,title="Efficient Support of Consistent Cyclic Search With Read-Copy Update" @@ -2008,11 +2155,11 @@ ,number="US Patent 7,426,511" ,month="September" ,pages="23" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -2021,13 +2168,12 @@ ,month="November" ,day="3" ,year="2008" -,note="Available: -\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/} -[Viewed November 6, 2008]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/}" +,annotation={ RCU with combining-tree-based grace-period detection, permitting it to handle thousands of CPUs. -" + [Viewed November 6, 2008] +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009BloatwatchRCU @@ -2039,10 +2185,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/14/449} [Viewed January 15, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Small-footprint implementation of RCU for uniprocessor embedded applications -- and also for exposition purposes. -" +} } @conference{PaulEMcKenney2009MaliciousURCU @@ -2055,9 +2201,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/urcutorture.2009.01.22a.pdf} [Viewed February 2, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Realtime RCU and torture-testing RCU uses. -" +} } @unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU @@ -2066,16 +2212,14 @@ ,month="February" ,day="5" ,year="2009" -,note="Available: -\url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/572} -\url{http://lttng.org/urcu} -[Viewed February 20, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{http://lttng.org/urcu}" +,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 -" + http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/572 +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009LWNBloatWatchRCU @@ -2087,9 +2231,24 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/323929/} [Viewed March 20, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Uniprocessor assumptions allow simplified RCU implementation. -" +} +} + +@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 @@ -2101,9 +2260,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/25/306} [Viewed August 16, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First posting of expedited RCU to be accepted into -tip. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2009fastRTRCU @@ -2115,21 +2274,21 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/23/294} [Viewed August 15, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ First posting of simple and fast preemptable RCU. -" +} } -@InProceedings{JoshTriplett2009RPHash +@unpublished{JoshTriplett2009RPHash ,Author="Josh Triplett" ,Title="Scalable concurrent hash tables via relativistic programming" ,month="September" ,year="2009" -,booktitle="Linux Plumbers Conference 2009" -,annotation=" +,note="Linux Plumbers Conference presentation" +,annotation={ RP fun with hash tables. - See also JoshTriplett2010RPHash -" + Superseded by JoshTriplett2010RPHash +} } @phdthesis{MathieuDesnoyersPhD @@ -2154,9 +2313,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/rp/} [Viewed December 9, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Main Relativistic Programming Wiki. -" +} } @conference{PaulEMcKenney2009DeterministicRCU @@ -2180,9 +2339,9 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://paulmck.livejournal.com/14639.html} [Viewed June 4, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Day-one bug in Tree RCU that took forever to track down. -" +} } @unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009defer:rcu @@ -2193,10 +2352,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/18/129} [Viewed December 29, 2009]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Mathieu proposed defer_rcu() with fixed-size per-thread pool of RCU callbacks. -" +} } @unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009VerifPrePub @@ -2205,10 +2364,10 @@ ,month="December" ,year="2009" ,note="Submitted to IEEE TPDS" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ OOMem model for Mathieu's user-level RCU mechanical proof of correctness. -" +} } @unpublished{MathieuDesnoyers2009URCUPrePub @@ -2216,15 +2375,15 @@ ,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=" +,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 @@ -2240,7 +2399,8 @@ ,address = {New York, NY, USA} ,annotation={ Uses RCU to protect metadata used in dynamic analysis. -}} +} +} @conference{PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU ,Author="Paul E. McKenney" @@ -2252,10 +2412,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/SimplicityThruOptimization.2010.01.21f.pdf} [Viewed October 10, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ TREE_PREEMPT_RCU optimizations greatly simplified the old PREEMPT_RCU implementation. -" +} } @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU @@ -2264,12 +2424,11 @@ ,month="February" ,year="2010" ,day="1" -,note="Available: -\url{https://lwn.net/Articles/371986/} -[Viewed June 4, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{https://lwn.net/Articles/371986/}" +,annotation={ CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, or at least an early version. -" + [Viewed June 4, 2010] +} } @unpublished{AviKivity2010KVM2RCU @@ -2280,10 +2439,10 @@ ,note="Available: \url{http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg28640.html} [Viewed March 20, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ Use of RCU permits KVM to increase the size of guest OSes from 16 CPUs to 64 CPUs. -" +} } @unpublished{HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash @@ -2292,12 +2451,24 @@ ,month="February" ,year="2010" ,note="Available: -\url{http://kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/2/26/6270589} -[Viewed March 20, 2011]" +\url{http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/153338} +[Viewed June 9, 2014]" ,annotation={ Use a pair of list_head structures to support RCU-protected resizable hash tables. -}} +} +} + +@mastersthesis{AbhinavDuggal2010Masters +,author="Abhinav Duggal" +,title="Stopping Data Races Using Redflag" +,school="Stony Brook University" +,year="2010" +,annotation={ + Data-race detector incorporating RCU. + http://www.filesystems.org/docs/abhinav-thesis/abhinav_thesis.pdf +} +} @article{JoshTriplett2010RPHash ,author="Josh Triplett and Paul E. McKenney and Jonathan Walpole" @@ -2310,7 +2481,8 @@ ,annotation={ RP fun with hash tables. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1842733.1842750 -}} +} +} @unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI ,Author="Paul E. McKenney" @@ -2318,12 +2490,11 @@ ,month="December" ,day="8" ,year="2010" -,note="Available: -\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/418853/} -[Viewed December 8, 2010]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/418853/}" +,annotation={ Includes updated software-engineering features. -" + [Viewed December 8, 2010] +} } @mastersthesis{AndrejPodzimek2010masters @@ -2338,7 +2509,8 @@ 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" @@ -2358,7 +2530,8 @@ 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} @@ -2392,12 +2565,12 @@ ,number="US Patent 7,953,778" ,month="May" ,pages="34" -,annotation=" +,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 @@ -2408,7 +2581,7 @@ ,year = {2011} ,pages = {145--158} ,numpages = {14} -,url={http://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/atc11_proceedings.pdf} +,url={http://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Triplett.pdf} ,publisher = {The USENIX Association} ,address = {Portland, OR USA} } @@ -2419,27 +2592,58 @@ ,month="July" ,day="27" ,year="2011" -,note="Available: -\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/453002/} -[Viewed July 27, 2011]" -,annotation=" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/453002/}" +,annotation={ Analysis of the RCU trainwreck in Linux kernel 3.0. -" + [Viewed July 27, 2011] +} } @unpublished{NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers ,Author="Neil Brown" -,Title="Meet the Lockers" +,Title="Meet the {Lockers}" ,month="August" ,day="3" ,year="2011" ,note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/Articles/453685/} [Viewed September 2, 2011]" -,annotation=" +,annotation={ The Locker family as an analogy for locking, reference counting, RCU, and seqlock. -" +} +} + +@inproceedings{Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425 +,author = {Seyster, Justin and Radhakrishnan, Prabakar and Katoch, Samriti and Duggal, Abhinav and Stoller, Scott D. and Zadok, Erez} +,title = {Redflag: a framework for analysis of Kernel-level concurrency} +,booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part I} +,series = {ICA3PP'11} +,year = {2011} +,isbn = {978-3-642-24649-4} +,location = {Melbourne, Australia} +,pages = {66--79} +,numpages = {14} +,url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2075416.2075425} +,acmid = {2075425} +,publisher = {Springer-Verlag} +,address = {Berlin, Heidelberg} +} + +@phdthesis{JoshTriplettPhD +,author="Josh Triplett" +,title="Relativistic Causal Ordering: A Memory Model for Scalable Concurrent Data Structures" +,school="Portland State University" +,year="2012" +,annotation={ + RCU-protected hash tables, barriers vs. read-side traversal order. + . + If the updater is making changes in the opposite direction from + the read-side traveral order, the updater need only execute a + memory-barrier instruction, but if in the same direction, the + updater needs to wait for a grace period between the individual + updates. +} } @article{MathieuDesnoyers2012URCU @@ -2459,5 +2663,150 @@ 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 + http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/dl/trans/td/2012/02/extras/ttd2012020375s.pdf +} +} + +@inproceedings{AustinClements2012RCULinux:mmapsem +,author = {Austin Clements and Frans Kaashoek and Nickolai Zeldovich} +,title = {Scalable Address Spaces Using {RCU} Balanced Trees} +,booktitle = {Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2012)} +,month = {March} +,year = {2012} +,pages = {199--210} +,numpages = {12} +,publisher = {ACM} +,address = {London, UK} +,url="http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/clements-bonsai.pdf" +} + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2012ELCbattery +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="Making {RCU} Safe For Battery-Powered Devices" +,month="February" +,day="15" +,year="2012" +,note="Available: +\url{http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/RCUdynticks.2012.02.15b.pdf} +[Viewed March 1, 2012]" +,annotation={ + RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, round 2. +} +} + +@article{GuillermoVigueras2012RCUCrowd +,author = {Vigueras, Guillermo and Ordu\~{n}a, Juan M. and Lozano, Miguel} +,day = {25} +,doi = {10.1007/s11227-012-0766-x} +,issn = {0920-8542} +,journal = {The Journal of Supercomputing} +,keywords = {linux, simulation} +,month = apr +,posted-at = {2012-05-03 09:12:04} +,priority = {2} +,title = {{A Read-Copy Update based parallel server for distributed crowd simulations}} +,url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11227-012-0766-x} +,year = {2012} +} + + +@unpublished{JonCorbet2012ACCESS:ONCE +,Author="Jon Corbet" +,Title="{ACCESS\_ONCE()}" +,month="August" +,day="1" +,year="2012" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/508991/}" +,annotation={ + A couple of simple specific compiler optimizations that motivate + ACCESS_ONCE(). +} +} + +@unpublished{AlexeyGotsman2012VerifyGraceExtended +,Author="Alexey Gotsman and Noam Rinetzky and Hongseok Yang" +,Title="Verifying Highly Concurrent Algorithms with Grace (extended version)" +,month="July" +,day="10" +,year="2012" +,note="\url{http://software.imdea.org/~gotsman/papers/recycling-esop13-ext.pdf}" +,annotation={ + Separation-logic formulation of RCU uses. +} +} + +@unpublished{PaulMcKenney2012RCUUsage +,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Silas Boyd-Wickizer and Jonathan Walpole" +,Title="{RCU} Usage In the Linux Kernel: One Decade Later" +,month="September" +,day="17" +,year="2012" +,url=http://rdrop.com/users/paulmck/techreports/survey.2012.09.17a.pdf +,note="Technical report paulmck.2012.09.17" +,annotation={ + Overview of the first variant of no-CBs CPUs for RCU. +} +} + +@unpublished{JonCorbet2012NOCB +,Author="Jon Corbet" +,Title="Relocating RCU callbacks" +,month="October" +,day="31" +,year="2012" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/522262/}" +,annotation={ + Overview of the first variant of no-CBs CPUs for RCU. +} +} + +@phdthesis{JustinSeyster2012PhD +,author="Justin Seyster" +,title="Runtime Verification of Kernel-Level Concurrency Using Compiler-Based Instrumentation" +,school="Stony Brook University" +,year="2012" +,annotation={ + Looking for data races, including those involving RCU. + Proposal: + http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/jseyster-proposal/redflag.pdf + Dissertation: + http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/jseyster-dissertation/redflag.pdf +} +} + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2013RCUUsage +,Author="Paul E. McKenney and Silas Boyd-Wickizer and Jonathan Walpole" +,Title="{RCU} Usage in the {Linux} Kernel: One Decade Later" +,month="February" +,day="24" +,year="2013" +,note="\url{http://rdrop.com/users/paulmck/techreports/RCUUsage.2013.02.24a.pdf}" +,annotation={ + Usage of RCU within the Linux kernel. +} +} + +@inproceedings{AlexeyGotsman2013ESOPRCU +,author = {Alexey Gotsman and Noam Rinetzky and Hongseok Yang} +,title = {Verifying concurrent memory reclamation algorithms with grace} +,booktitle = {ESOP'13: European Symposium on Programming} +,year = {2013} +,pages = {249--269} +,publisher = {Springer} +,address = {Rome, Italy} +,annotation={ + http://software.imdea.org/~gotsman/papers/recycling-esop13.pdf +} +} + +@unpublished{PaulEMcKenney2013NoTinyPreempt +,Author="Paul E. McKenney" +,Title="Simplifying RCU" +,month="March" +,day="6" +,year="2013" +,note="\url{http://lwn.net/Articles/541037/}" +,annotation={ + Getting rid of TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. } }