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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2007
Ralph E. Bellofatto, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mark E. Giampapa, Irvington, NY (US);
Martin Ohmacht, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ralph E. Bellofatto, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mark E. Giampapa, Irvington, NY (US);
Martin Ohmacht, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A memory system and method for providing atomic memory-based counter operations to operating systems and applications that make most efficient use of counter-backing memory and virtual and physical address space, while simplifying operating system memory management, and enabling the counter-backing memory to be used for purposes other than counter-backing storage when desired. The encoding and address decoding enabled by the invention provides all this functionality through a combination of software and hardware.