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On 6/22/14, 7:18 AM, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
>
> Just a note on passive serialization in NetBSD: there is a lot of space for
> optimisations, simplifications or improvements to that code, but it was a
> deliberate choice to avoid them.  The goal was to carefully implement the
> logic described in the expired patent (or at least attempt to be as close as
> our interpretation skills allow us to be).  Any deviation from that logic
> increases the risk of falling under some other technique, primarily RCU,
> covered by other patent.
>
hopefully the recent ruling on software patents may make the whole 
thing moot
given enough impetus.