Re: what is RCU deletion hook

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On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 23:07, James Bond <jamesbond.2k.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> hook which is called right at the time deletion actually happens.
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> What is this deletion you are referring to?

Such as freeing structs or pointers...instead of we use locking
mechanism such as spinlock, we use RCU mechanism...thus, we do it
(almost) lockless...

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