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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2008
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Menon, Seattle, WA (US);
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Menon, Seattle, WA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for optimizing quiescence in a transactional memory system is herein described. Non-ordering transactions, such as read-only transactions, transactions that do not access non-transactional data, and write-buffering hardware transactions, are identified. Quiescence in weak atomicity software transactional memory (STM) systems is optimized through selective application of quiescence. As a result, transactions may be decoupled from dependency on quiescing/waiting on previous non-ordering transaction to increase parallelization and reduce inefficiency based on serialization of transactions.