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RCU and Scalability

Date: 11:20am, Monday, September 27th
Location: Quarante C2
Topic: Kernel
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RCU(Read-Copy-Update) is a synchronization mechanism which allows reads to occur concurrently with updates and achieves good scalability and good performance. This speach talks about what benefit do large systems get from RCU, RCU in userspace and RCU-based approache for C-Language Dependency Ordering.

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Lai Jiangshan, Fujitsu

Lai Jiangshan works in Fujitsu Kernel team. As a kernel tester and developer, he has been active in the kernel community for 3 years. He has been improving RCU subsystem since 2008. He has addressed various bugs and wrote a new implementation of RCU.

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