On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 05:10:27PM -0400, Olivier Dion wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have the intention of deprecating the urcu-signal flavor in the
> future. We are asking users of URCU for _feedback_ on this before
> going any further.
>
> Part of this decision is that we are adding support for TSAN in URCU and
> the signal flavor deadlocks with TSAN. It is also my understanding that
> the urcu-signal flavor was historically made as a fallback for system
> lacking the membarrier(2) system call. Nowadays, most systems have
> support for that system call, making the urcu-signal an artifact of the
> past.
No objections here. I will need to do a little rework of my book, but
I can do that. ;-)
> The following is a proposed timeline of events:
>
> 1. Asking for feedback from users of URCU (this message)
> 2. Disabling the signal flavor by default and adding --enable-flavor-signal
> 3. Removing the signal flavor
Makes sense to me!
Thanx, Paul
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