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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Brian R. Bennett, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Stephen S. Chang, Glendora, CA (US);
Brian R. Bennett, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Stephen S. Chang, Glendora, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention include a method of preventing live-lock in a multiprocessor system. The method comprising identifying a first bus transaction attempting to modify a resource and setting a status bit to indicate that a bus transaction attempting to modify the shared resource is pending. The method further comprising retrying each subsequent nonmodifying bus transaction for the shared resource until the status bit is cleared.
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