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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Deep K. Buch, Folsom, CA (US);
Inventor:
Deep K. Buch, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and machine-readable medium measure requests by threads requesting a lock to differentiate 'hot' and 'cold' locks in accordance with the level of contention for the locks. A hardware accelerator manages access to hot locks to improve performance.