Paul Giblock wrote:
>> If your data structures and their use require locking, which you would like
>> to avoid, there is a concept called Read-Copy-Update which is for example
>> heavily used in the kernel and is also available as an userspace library
>> (http://lttng.org/urcu).
>
> Yes, the RCU approach is quite effective. However, better to not call
> it that since IBM has a patent on it last I checked.
Calling it by a different name won't prevent it from infringing IBM
patents.
However, IBM's RCU license for all (L)GPL projects will.
Anyway, that library is published by the patent holder.
Regards,
Clemens
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