Comment by spacechild1

I have almost finished the book (to be honest, I have skipped the "Validation" chapter) and I found it quite interesting. In particular I liked that it also covered more "exotic" topics such as sequence locks, hazard pointers and RCU. However, in general, I found it a bit too much focussed on Linux kernel code. The code examples are full of kernel code macros, such as READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE, instead of C11/C++11 atomics. In the end, I appreciated it because it gave me a new perspective, but I'm not sure if this helpful for people who are not already familiar with parallel programming...