As possible improvements to reader-writer locks, learn about sequence locks [Lam05] and the RCU (read-copy update) synchronization idiom [MAK+01]. Both of these are heavily used in the operating...

As possible improvements to reader-writer locks, learn about sequence locks [Lam05] and the RCU (read-copy update) synchronization idiom [MAK+01]. Both of these are heavily used in the operating systems community. Discuss the challenges involved in applying them to code written by “nonexperts.”