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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Jerrie L. Coffman, Beaverton, OR (US);
Mark S. Hefty, Aloha, OR (US);
Fabian S. Tillier, Beaverton, OR (US);
Jerrie L. Coffman, Beaverton, OR (US);
Mark S. Hefty, Aloha, OR (US);
Fabian S. Tillier, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A host system is provided with a shared resource (such as work queues and completion queues); multiple processors arranged to access the shared resource; and an operating system arranged to allow multiple processors to perform work on the shared resource concurrently while supporting updates of the shared resource. Such an operating system may comprise a synchronization algorithm for synchronizing multiple threads of operation with a single thread so as to achieve mutual exclusion between multiple threads performing work on the shared resource and a single thread updating or changing the state of the shared resource without requiring serialization of all threads.