<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The mail was accidentally sent. Here is more info:<br><br></div>My question really is that when writing a user space application that leverages RCU, how do I ensure that I am using the proper flavor/implementation of RCU ? I don't think so I can go ahead with non-preemptive RCU. And the user space paper does not really tell or distinguish clearly as to which of the following -- QSBR, MB, BP, signal can be used for preemptive environments and do not restrict the reader to not block or not sleep ?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Siddharth <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:07 PM, siddharth teotia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siddharthteotia@gmail.com" target="_blank">siddharthteotia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Guys,<br><br></div>I recently started exploring RCU to build a lock free hash table. I have read quite a bit of literature from LWN on RCU, its usage, API etc. I have the following question for which I have had mixed answers online:<br><br></div>Does the user space implementation of RCU liburcu take care of preemptive v/s non-preemptive flavors of RCU. From what I understand RCU can be broadly divided into:<br><br></div>1. Classic RCU - High Performance but suitable for non-preemptive environments.<br></div>2. Preemptible RCU - Permits the reader to block on a resource or the read side critical sections to be preempted. But still does not allow any kind of sleep(). Moreover there seems to be some sort of limitation on the nature of blocking that can happen within RCU read side critical section.<br></div>3. Sleepable RCU - Seems to me an augmentation of preemptible RCU.<br><br></div>The paper that describes the user space implementation of RCU suggests 4 different flavors -- QSBR, Memory Barrier based, Bullet Proof, and Signal based. <br><br></div>I don't think so in my application I can afford to not have the readers block or even sleep. If the reader wants to take some orthogonal lock/latch on an entirely different resource, it might end waiting for it.<br><br></div>And because <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br clear="all"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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