Structured deferral: synchronization via procrastination

  • Authors:
  • Paul E. McKenney

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM's Linux Technology Center

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We simply do not have a synchronization mechanism that can enforce mutual exclusion.