Usage of liburcu-defer
- * #include <urcu-defer.h>
- * Link with "-lurcu-defer", and also with one of the urcu library
- (either urcu, urcu-bp, urcu-mb or urcu-qsbr).
+ * Follow instructions for either liburcu, liburcu-qsbr,
+ liburcu-mb, liburcu-signal, or liburcu-bp above.
+ The liburcu-defer functionality is pulled into each of
+ those library modules.
* Provides defer_rcu() primitive to enqueue delayed callbacks. Queued
callbacks are executed in batch periodically after a grace period.
Do _not_ use defer_rcu() within a read-side critical section, because
it may call synchronize_rcu() if the thread queue is full.
- * Provides defer_rcu_ratelimit() primitive, which acts just like
- defer_rcu(), but takes an additional rate limiter callback forcing
- synchronized callback execution of the limiter returns non-zero.
+ This can lead to deadlock or worse.
* Requires that rcu_defer_barrier() must be called in library destructor
if a library queues callbacks and is expected to be unloaded with
dlclose().
* Its API is currently experimental. It may change in future library
releases.
+Usage of urcu-call-rcu
+
+ * Follow instructions for either liburcu, liburcu-qsbr,
+ liburcu-mb, liburcu-signal, or liburcu-bp above.
+ The urcu-call-rcu functionality is provided for each of
+ these library modules.
+ * Provides the call_rcu() primitive to enqueue delayed callbacks
+ in a manner similar to defer_rcu(), but without ever delaying
+ for a grace period. On the other hand, call_rcu()'s best-case
+ overhead is not quite as good as that of defer_rcu().
+ * Provides call_rcu() to allow asynchronous handling of RCU
+ grace periods. A number of additional functions are provided
+ to manage the helper threads used by call_rcu(), but reasonable
+ defaults are used if these additional functions are not invoked.
+ See API.txt for more details.
+
Being careful with signals
The liburcu library uses signals internally. The signal handler is