Re: [RELEASE] Userspace RCU 0.7.2

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu May 24 2012 - 17:27:14 EST


There goes 0.7.2, fixing an unforeseen library binary compatibility
issue between 0.6.x lib versions and 0.7.x (we did not intend to break
binary compatibility between those two).

2012-05-24 Userspace RCU 0.7.2
* Fix library compatibility

Thanks for everyone reporting issues,

Mathieu

* Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> liburcu is a LGPLv2.1 userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library. This
> data synchronization library provides read-side access which scales
> linearly with the number of cores. It does so by allowing multiples
> copies of a given data structure to live at the same time, and by
> monitoring the data structure accesses to detect grace periods after
> which memory reclamation is possible.
>
> liburcu-cds provides efficient data structures based on RCU and
> lock-free algorithms. Those structures include hash tables, queues,
> stacks, and doubly-linked lists.
>
> This is a compile-fix release, fixing a compile issue introduced a few
> days before the 0.7.0 release. We plan to deploy a continuous
> integration test setup to catch this kind of issue earlier in a very
> near future.
>
> Changelog:
> 2012-05-24 Userspace RCU 0.7.1
> * fix: uatomic_set return value compile fix for non-x86 arch.
>
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
> EfficiOS Inc.
> http://www.efficios.com

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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