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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2021
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Estep, Rowlett, TX (US);
Tony M. Brewer, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/526 (2013.01); G06F 9/5005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Devices and techniques for CHAINED RESOURCE LOCKING are described herein. Threads form a last-in-first-out (LIFO) queue on a resource lock to create a chained lock on the resource. A data store representing the lock for the resource holds the previous thread's identifier, enabling a subsequent thread to wake the previous thread using the identifier when the subsequent thread releases the lock. Generally, the thread releasing the lock need not interact with the data store, reducing contention for the data store among many threads.