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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2019
Commissariat À L'énergie Atomique ET Aux Énergies Alternatives, Paris, FR;
Maxime France-Pillois, Grenoble, FR;
Jérôme Martin, Grenoble, FR;
Eric Guthmuller, Grenoble, FR;
Frédéric Rousseau, Grenoble, FR;
Abstract
A multi-core architecture including: a plurality of processing devices, each processing device including a single processor or a cluster of processors; and a lock manager associated with each processing device, each lock manager being configured to: store a first data value indicating of whether or not it currently owns a first lock, the first lock authorizing access to a resource; and permit an owner of the first lock to be determined by one or more lock managers by broadcasting, over an interconnection network to each of the other lock managers, at least one message.