Lockless algorithms [was Re: splxxx replacements?]

[Antonio Vargas]

On 11/18/06, talon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <talon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Huey (hui) <billh at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are patent issues and the GPL license, but this is just too powerful an
> algorithm to ignore. In many way, this brings out the ultimate in what shared
> memory system can do.
Without entering such troll subjects, the patent issue completely kills using
RCU outside of Linux. RCU is patented IBM with special licence to use in Linux
only, as far as i remember. Due to the history of IBM  it would be suicidal
Linux-only doesn't exist per-se, since linux is GPL and any GPL code
can be remixed without problems. So, the question would be if it's ok
to remix GPL with DFBSD license (which probably doesn't)
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