Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wake-and-go mechanism with data exclusivity
- Patent Title (中): 具有数据排他性的唤醒机制
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Application No.: US12024479Application Date: 2008-02-01
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Publication No.: US08225120B2Publication Date: 2012-07-17
- Inventor: Ravi K. Arimilli , Satya P. Sharma , Randal C. Swanberg
- Applicant: Ravi K. Arimilli , Satya P. Sharma , Randal C. Swanberg
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Stephen T. Tkacs; Stephen J. Walder, Jr.; Matthew B. Talpis
- Main IPC: G06F1/00
- IPC: G06F1/00 ; G06F1/32

Abstract:
Snoop response logic on a system bus is configured to detect on the system bus requests to access data at a target address with data exclusivity from at least one of a plurality of wake-and-go engines. The snoop response logic is further configured to determine a winning wake-and-go engine from the at least one wake-and-go engine that obtains a lock on the target address and generate a combined snoop response. The combined snoop response identifies the winning wake-and-go engine. The snoop response logic sends the combined snoop response to the at least one wake-and-go engine on the system bus. Each remaining wake-and-go engine within the at least one wake-and-go engine places an entry in its respective wake-and-go storage array to spin on a lock for the target address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090199028A1 Wake-and-Go Mechanism with Data Exclusivity Public/Granted day:2009-08-06
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