Over the past few years, the kernel has grown a modern, sophisticated memory model which is exposed directly to the developer and provides portable concurrency primitives across the 20+ architectures supported by mainline. These low-level primitives have been used to...
RCU has seen lots of changes in the last 2 years. Of note is the RCU flavor consolidation and tree RCU’s lock contention improvements. There have been also improvements with static checking, fixes to scheduler deadlocks and improvements to RCU-based linked lists....
This talk will present a high-level overview of the hardware structure of modern computer systems, and then will use this structure to show how the laws of physics put limitations on the design and implementation of concurrent software. Venue permitting, it will...
