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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2006
Maurilio Cometto, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeevan Kamisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Arindam Paul, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Varagur V. Chandrasekaran, Fremont, CA (US);
Maurilio Cometto, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeevan Kamisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Arindam Paul, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Varagur V. Chandrasekaran, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein a lock manager is kept moving among multiple cores or processors in a multi-core or multi-processor environment. By 'hopping' the lock manager from processor to processor, a bottleneck at any of the processors is prevented. The frequency of movement may be based on, for example, a counter that counts the number of input/outputs handled by the lock manager and moves the lock manager to a different processor once a determined threshold is met. In another embodiment of the present invention, the frequency of the movement between processors may be based on a time that counts the amount of time the lock manager has been operating on the processor and moves the lock manager to a different processor once a predetermined time is reached.