On May 14, 2001, H. Peter Anvin announced to the linux-kernel mailing list: “Linus Torvalds has requested a moratorium on new device number assignments. His hope is that a new and better method for ...
RCU (read-copy update), a synchronization technique optimized for read-mostly data structures, recently was added to the Linux 2.6 kernel. This article describes how RCU improved the scalability of ...