Monthly Archives: December 2011

User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update

Woo-hoo! User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update has appeared in the February 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Many thanks to everyone involved, especially co-authors Jon Walpole, Michel R. Dagenais, Alan Stern (who did the symbolic-logic heavy … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Recovering Proprietary Programmer, Part VIII

My presentation at the Real Time Linux Workshop this past October, titled “On migrate_disable() and Lantencies” (presentation), was a bit of a departure for me. This presentation used a Markov model to analyze the behavior of some recent changes to … Continue reading

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The accretion of meaning

Noam Chomsky once wrote “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct but nonsensical. However, my daughter Sarah and I were discussing this earlier today, and each of us managed to generate meanings … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Recovering Proprietary Programmer, Part VII

My work on RCU does require a pioneering spirit. For example, there are no classes to guide my efforts other than those I teach, and there are no publications to draw from other than those I write. One saving grace … Continue reading

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