Subj : Re: Proxy collector based on RCU+SMR hazard pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : d|dq
Date : Sun Aug 14 2005 05:59 pm

Joe Seigh wrote:
> Doing a proxy collector based on RCU+SMR is easier than
> the proxy collector based on atomic_ptr since you don't
> need a special collector object.  Just keep a spare collection
> element object around.  When you remove an element from the
> collection, instead of deferring deletion of it, you swap it
> with the proxy object and defer deletion of it instead.  The
> built in FIFO of deletes if you're using mutexes for the writes
> and FIFO processing of RCU+SMR take care of everything, so no
> explicit FIFO queue like atomic_ptr proxy does.
> 
> Performance measurements on a single cpu show RCU+SMR proxy performs
> way better than atomic_ptr proxy which did slightly better than
> plain RCU+SMR on linked list traversals with no preemption.
> 

What is it? :)

Please send me read me something that will tell me more about the 
background of this information.

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