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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
May. 02, 2002
Harish Kumar, Portland, OR (US);
Aravindh Baktha, Portland, OR (US);
Mike D. Upton, Portland, OR (US);
KS Venkatraman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Herbert H. Hum, Portland, OR (US);
Zhongying Zhang, Cornelius, OR (US);
Harish Kumar, Portland, OR (US);
Aravindh Baktha, Portland, OR (US);
Mike D. Upton, Portland, OR (US);
KS Venkatraman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Herbert H. Hum, Portland, OR (US);
Zhongying Zhang, Cornelius, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and device for determining an attribute associated with a locked load instruction and selecting a lock protocol based upon the attribute of the locked load instruction. Also disclosed is a method for concurrently executing the respective lock sequences associated with multiple threads of a processing device.