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Re: RCU (or equivalent) for NetBSD?
On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Dennis Ferguson
<dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 3 Mar, 2013, at 14:37 , Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:53:01PM +0800, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>>>
>>> Could the NetBSD kernel now acquire RCU, or RCU-like,
>>> infrastructure? I suspect I am incapable of designing this
>>> myself but I have a pretty good idea about what it would
>>> usefully enable.
>>
>> The documentation is poor, but it references a paper which explains
>> better -- does pserialize(9) do what you want?
>
> The basic functions seem to be a perfect fit.
>
> The only bit I'm confused about is what the implication of
>
> The read operations may happen from software interrupt at the
> IPL_SOFTCLOCK symbolic level.
>
> is for an application that wants to use this interface. Processing of packets
> arriving from hardware interfaces is traditionally run at IPL_SOFTNET, is the
> above telling me a reader can't use pserialize(9) if it is running at that
> level?
The opposite: pserialize may be used from soft interrupt context.
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