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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2015
Applicant:
Cavium, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee, Southborough, MA (US);
Richard Eugene Kessler, Northborough, MA (US);
Mike Bertone, Marlborough, MA (US);
Chris Comis, Holliston, MA (US);
Bryan Chin, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cavium, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for managing an observed order of instructions in a computing system includes utilizing an overloaded memory barrier instruction to specify whether a global ordering constraint or a local ordering constraint is enforced.