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Patent No.:

US 5898840 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999

Filed:

Jul. 01, 1996

Maintaining a sequential store order (sso) in a non-sso machine

Applicant:
Inventors:

Aleksandr Guzovskiy, Lowell, MA (US);

William A Nesheim, Windham, NH (US);

Ashok Singhal, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Pinto; James A.

Kubida; William J.

Primary Examiner:

Glenn A Auve

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520056 ; 395826 ; 395856 ;
Abstract

In a multiprocessor system, a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for maintaining the proper sequence of store/write operations between multiple processors to remote I/O devices without requiring changes to application software. A synchronizer is employed to synchronize write operations to the remote I/O device, and the write operations are synchronized individually upon detection and emulation, or as a group upon detection of the release of a mutual exclusion lock.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Guzovskiy, Aleksandr. (1999). Maintaining a sequential store order (sso) in a non-sso machine (U.S. Patent No. 5898840). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5898840

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