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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Robert E. Jeter, Jr., Morrisville, NC (US);
Inventor:
Robert E. Jeter, Jr., Morrisville, NC (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique releases locks associated with particular memory locations. The technique uses a 'background' approach to determining when the locks should be released in that memory operations associated with the memory locations are monitored while instructions continue to execute on a processor. The memory operations are monitored by generating a condition for each memory operation and clearing the condition when the operation completes. When all the conditions are cleared, the associated locks are released.