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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Steven G. Aden, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Clinton E. Bubb, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Michael Grassi, Shokan, NY (US);
Howard M. Haynie, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Raymond M. Higgs, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Luke M. Hopkins, Peterborough, NH (US);
Kirk Pospesel, Yorktown, NY (US);
Gabriel M. Tarr, Durham, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for managing one or more queues in a multi-processor environment includes a queue manager disposed in communication with a plurality of processors and a memory shared by the plurality of processors, and a queue configured to be controlled by the queue manager, the queue including independent and discrete queue elements and having a starting location specified by a base address, the queue manager having one or more dynamically configurable parameters, the one or more dynamically configurable parameters including a size of each of the queue elements. The queue manager is configured to perform receiving a message from a processor of the plurality of processors, the message including an operation address specifying a fixed storage location in the memory and a request related to accessing the memory, selecting the queue based on the operation address, and performing a queuing operation on the queue based on the request.