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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Torvald Riegel, Dresden, DE;
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/70 (2013.01); G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for sharing resources between multiple processing streams. An example method may comprise: maintaining, by a processing device, a first variable indicating a number of processing streams waiting to access a resource; performing an operation on a second variable comprising a first portion and a second portion, the operation comprising updating the first portion to reflect a number of available units of the resource and further comprising reading the second portion reflecting a value of the first variable.