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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
May. 22, 2024
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zan Huang, Shanghai, CN;
Zhen Huang, Guangdong, CN;
Xu Guo, Beijing, CN;
Lei Wu, Beijing, CN;
Kunlun Li, Shanghai, CN;
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing device maintains locking data including a first portion indicating whether a write operation is updating a data item or awaiting to update the data item, and a second portion indicating a number of read operations accessing the data item. A first read operation to the read the data item is received. a first locking condition is determined to be satisfied using the locking data, representing that no write operations are updating the data item or awaiting to update the data item. Responsive to the determination the first locking condition is satisfied, the second portion of the locking data is atomically incremented to reflect the number of read operations reading the data, and the first read operation to read the data is executed.