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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Sap SE, Walldorf, DE;

Inventors:

Daniel Booss, Angelbachtal, DE;

Robert Kettler, Heidelberg, DE;

Assignee:

SAP SE, Walldorf, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, system or product, the method comprising receiving, by a memory management system, a first memory request from a first thread in a multi-threaded computing environment, the memory request including a target value associated with a size of memory requested by the first thread; in response to receiving the first memory request, retrieving a header referencing a first node in a linked list data structure having a plurality of connected nodes, the header comprising a first pointer value, referring to a free first memory block, and a first size value associated with a size of the first memory block; reading, by way of an atomic operation, the first pointer value and the first size value from the linked list data structure.


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