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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1998
Bruce Kenneth Haddon, Boulder, CO (US);
William Hayden Connor, Boulder, CO (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for synchronizing threads of execution within a distributed computing environment. Threads of execution within a computer spawn additional threads of execution on separate computers within the distributed computing environment. Each thread may compete for shared resources within the computing environment, thereby creating a need to avoid deadlocks among the local threads. Whereas locals thread exists within a single computing platform, logical threads are created to relate local threads to each other and thereby span the platforms on which the local threads reside. Distributed monitors are created to control access to shared resources by local threads based on logical thread affiliations. Locks within the distributed monitors are assigned to logical threads instead of local threads. Local threads that are each part of the same logical thread will all have access to the shared resource when the lock is assigned to the logical thread.