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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2023-10-01 09:13:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2023-10-01 09:13:28 -0700 |
| commit | 3860345ab8d75a321b64062ea013e33591e69586 (patch) | |
| tree | b5e402aa68a22dde8db1a107228c74d0db5803e4 | |
| parent | 18bb86ce86bd9fdd451e76c4f10aa2c072ef338a (diff) | |
| download | perfbook-3860345ab8d75a321b64062ea013e33591e69586.tar.gz | |
defer/rcuusage: Add Matt Kline GC/RCU analogy
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | bib/RCU.bib | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | defer/rcuusage.tex | 8 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bib/RCU.bib b/bib/RCU.bib index 092ee13e..e653a1b9 100644 --- a/bib/RCU.bib +++ b/bib/RCU.bib @@ -3530,3 +3530,12 @@ series = {SPAA '20} primaryClass={cs.IT}, note="\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11683}", } + +@unpublished{MattKline2023LockBasedLocklessFresh, + Author="Matt Kline", + Title="Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers", + year="2023", + month="September", + day="27", + note="\url{https://bitbashing.io/gc-for-systems-programmers.html}", +} diff --git a/defer/rcuusage.tex b/defer/rcuusage.tex index fb2a04ee..3db94b21 100644 --- a/defer/rcuusage.tex +++ b/defer/rcuusage.tex @@ -881,9 +881,11 @@ existence guarantees discussed in \label{sec:defer:Light-Weight Garbage Collector} A not-uncommon exclamation made by people first learning about -RCU is ``RCU is sort of like a garbage collector!'' -This exclamation has a large grain of truth, but it can also be -misleading. +RCU is ``RCU is sort of like a garbage +collector!''~\cite{MattKline2023LockBasedLocklessFresh}. +This exclamation has a large grain of truth, especially when using RCU +to implement non-blocking algorithms that rely on garbage collection, +but it can sometimes be misleading. Perhaps the best way to think of the relationship between RCU and automatic garbage collectors (GCs) is that RCU resembles |