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Stupid RCU Tricks: How Read-Intensive is The Kernel's Use of RCU?
RCU is a specialized synchronization mechanism, and is typically used where there are far more readers ( rcu_read_lock() , rcu_read_unlock() , rcu_dereference() , and so on) than there are updaters (