Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lock free container packing
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Application No.: US15877876Application Date: 2018-01-23
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Publication No.: US10146686B2Publication Date: 2018-12-04
- Inventor: Grant R. Wallace , Philip N. Shilane
- Applicant: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/06 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F9/54

Abstract:
Systems and methods for writing data are provided. A lock-free container and methods of writing to the lock-free container are disclosed. The container is associated with a tail pointer that identifies free space in the container. Threads writing to the container access the tail pointer and update an offset in the tail pointer to account for a size of a write to the container. Multiple threads can write to the same container without having to contend for a container lock.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180165192A1 LOCK FREE CONTAINER PACKING Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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