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Options to correct the incorrect queue

What should we do? Well, it turns out there's lots of options in the literature. Hart, McKenney, Brown and Walpole's 2007 Performance of Memory Reclamation for Lockless Synchronization discusses four, along with references to their originating papers:

Quiescent-state-based reclamation (QSRB): The application's signal quiescent'periods in which reclamation is allowed
Epoch-based reclamation (EBR): The applications make use of structures that determine when reclamation is allowed by moving memory through epochs
Hazard-pointer-based reclamation (HPBR): Threads cooperate and signal pointers as being hazardous for reclamation
Lock-free reference counting (LFRC): Pointers carry an atomic counter of ...

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