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Sergey Fedorov
9bda456e41 doc/rcu: fix g_free_rcu() usage example
The first argument of g_free_rcu() is a pointer to a structure.  But
foo_reclaim is used as a function name in the previous example along
with &foo as a pointer to the structure being reclaimed.  Make the
example consistent with the previous one.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <1444837604-13712-1-git-send-email-serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-10-19 10:13:07 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
439c5e02d5 rcu: add g_free_rcu
This simplifies calling g_free from an RCU callback.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-02-16 17:30:19 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
26387f86c9 rcu: add call_rcu
Asynchronous callbacks provided by call_rcu are particularly important
for QEMU, because the BQL makes it hard to use synchronize_rcu.

In addition, the current RCU implementation is not particularly friendly
to multiple concurrent synchronize_rcu callers, making call_rcu even
more important.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-02-02 16:55:10 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
7911747bd4 rcu: add rcu library
This includes a (mangled) copy of the liburcu code.  The main changes
are: 1) removing dependencies on many other header files in liburcu; 2)
removing for simplicity the tentative busy waiting in synchronize_rcu,
which has limited performance effects; 3) replacing futexes in
synchronize_rcu with QemuEvents for Win32 portability.  The API is
the same as liburcu, so it should be possible in the future to require
liburcu on POSIX systems for example and use our copy only on Windows.

Among the various versions available I chose urcu-mb, which is the
least invasive implementation even though it does not have the
fastest rcu_read_{lock,unlock} implementation.  The urcu flavor can
be changed later, after benchmarking.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-02-02 16:55:10 +01:00