Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low overhead exclusive control for shared memory objects
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Application No.: US15480027Application Date: 2017-04-05
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Publication No.: US10585818B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Yasunao Katayama
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.
- Agent Vazken Alexanian
- Main IPC: G06F13/16
- IPC: G06F13/16 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F9/52

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method is provided for exclusive control of shared memory objects. The method computer-implemented includes transmitting and performing a plurality of accesses to the shared memory objects from local and remote locations via read requests and write requests made to a memory, and controlling the read and write requests by a memory controller including a read queue, a write queue, and a lock address list. The computer-implemented method further includes initiating each read request to the memory via the memory controller whatever the corresponding lock bit is, initiating each write request to the memory from the recently read location via the memory controller when the corresponding lock bit is enabled, otherwise notify the requesting local or remote locations as incomplete, and enabling and disabling the corresponding lock bit after the initiation of the read and write requests to the memory, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180293186A1 LOW OVERHEAD EXCLUSIVE CONTROL FOR SHARED MEMORY OBJECTS Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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