FACILITY FOR EXTENDING EXCLUSIVE HOLD OF A CACHE LINE IN PRIVATE CACHE

    公开(公告)号:CA3037433A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-19

    申请号:CA3037433

    申请日:2018-01-03

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A computing environment facility is provided to extend a hold of a cache line in private (or local) cache exclusively after processing a storage operand request. The facility includes determining whether a storage operand request to a storage location shared by multiple processing units of the computing environment is designated hold. In addition, a determination is made whether a state of the corresponding cache line in private cache used for processing the storage operand request is owned exclusively. Based on determining that the storage operand request is designated hold, and that the state of the corresponding cache line in private cache used for processing the storage operand request is owned exclusively, continuing to hold the corresponding cache line in the private cache exclusively after completing processing of the storage operand request. The continuing to hold may include initiating a counter to facilitate the continuing hold for a desired, set interval.

    AREA DE CONTROL PARA GESTIONAR MULTIPLES SUBPROCESOS EN UNA COMPUTADORA.

    公开(公告)号:MX2016012531A

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-20

    申请号:MX2016012531

    申请日:2015-03-16

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Un sistema de computadora incluye una configuración de máquina virtual (VM) con uno o más núcleos. Cada núcleo se hablita para operar en un modo de subprocesamiento individual (ST) o un modo de subprocesamiento múltiple (MT). El modo ST consiste de un subproceso individual y el modo MT consiste de una pluralidad de subprocesos en recursos compartidos de un núcleo respectivo. El sistema de computadora incluye un área de control de sistema orientada al núcleo (COSCA) que tiene un área común que representa todos los núcleos de la configuración de VM y áreas de descripción de núcleo separadas para cada uno de los núcleos en la configuración de VM. Cada área de descripción de núcleo indica una ubicación de una o más áreas de descripción de subproceso cada una que representa un subproceso dentro del núcleo respectivo, y cada área de descripción de subproceso indica una ubicación de una descripción de estado del subproceso respectivo.

    THREAD CONTEXT RESTORATION IN A MULTITHREADING COMPUTER SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:SG11201606094TA

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-30

    申请号:SG11201606094T

    申请日:2015-03-16

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Embodiments relate to thread context restoration. One aspect is a multithreading computer system including a configuration with a core configurable between a single thread (ST) mode and a multithreading (MT) mode. The ST mode addresses a primary thread and the MT mode addresses the primary thread and one or more secondary threads on shared resources of the core. A multithreading facility is configured to control utilization of the configuration to perform a method including disabling one or more secondary threads based on switching from MT mode to ST mode. A thread context of secondary threads is made unavailable to programs. Based on a last-set program-specified maximum thread-id indicating MT, the thread context is obtained by a) executing a set MT instruction to resume the MT mode, and b) based on being in the resumed MT mode, accessing the thread context.

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