A technique for realtime-safe detection of a grace period for deferring the destruction of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element have been removed. A pair of counters is established for each of one or more processors. A global counter selector determines which counter...http://www.google.de/patents/US7395263?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7395263 - Realtime-safe read copy update with lock-free readers
