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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Manik Ram Surtani, London, GB;
Jason Thomas Greene, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Manik Ram Surtani, London, GB;
Jason Thomas Greene, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing concurrent access to a cache node of a tree-based data structure. Readers concurrently read access the cache node. A copy of the cache node is created for a write access of a writer. Only one copy of the cache node is allowed at any one time. The writer operates on the copy of the cache node while concurrent read access of the cache node are provided to the readers.