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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
