In-kernel SRCU implementation with reduced OS jitter

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8924655
APP PUB NO 20140223119A1
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13758371

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A technique for implementing SRCU with reduced OS jitter may include: (1) providing a pair of critical section counters for each CPU; (2) when entering an SRCU read-side critical section, incrementing one of the critical section counters associated with a first grace period; (3) when exiting an SRCU read-side critical section, decrementing one of the critical section counters associated with the first grace period; (4) when performing a data update, initiating the second grace period and performing a counter summation operation that sums the critical section counters associated with the first grace period to generate a critical section counter sum; (5) storing a snapshot value for each critical section counter during the summing; and (6) if the critical section counter sum indicates there are no active SRCU read-side critical sections for the first grace period, rechecking by comparing the snapshot values to current values of the critical section counters.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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McKenney, Paul E Beaverton, US 146 4613

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