Collaboration Summit 2014

Highly performant and scalable techniques such as RCU have been quite successful in read-mostly situations. However, there do come times when updates are necessary. It would be convenient if there was some general update-side counterpart to RCU, but sadly there is not yet any such thing. Nevertheless, there are a number of specialized update-side techniques whose performance and scalability rival that of RCU. This talk will discuss several of them and provide an outlook into the future of low-overhead scalable updates.

The audience is those kernel and application developers needing to produce parallel update-heavy code that performs and scales well.

This presentation will review the state of the update-heavy parallel-programming art and hopefully spark discussions that will advance this art.