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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:
Jun. 20, 2023

Filed:

May. 09, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ralf Winkelmann, Holzgerlingen, DE;

Michael Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);

Matthias Klein, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Carsten Otte, Stuttgart, DE;

Edward W. Chencinski, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Hanno Eichelberger, Stuttgart, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 12/0842 (2016.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/522 (2013.01); G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 9/546 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method for a computer system comprising a plurality of processor cores including a first processor core and a second processor core, wherein a data item is exclusively assigned to the first processor core, of the plurality of processor cores, for executing an atomic primitive by the first processor core. The method includes receiving by the first processor core, from the second processor core, a request for accessing the data item, and in response to determining by the first processor core that the executing of the atomic primitive is not completed by the first processor core, returning a rejection message to the second processor core.


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