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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2004
Applicants:
Craig S. Anderson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Santosh G. Abraham, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stevan Vlaovic, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Craig S. Anderson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Santosh G. Abraham, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Stevan Vlaovic, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Intelligent prediction of critical sections is implemented using a method comprising updating a critical section estimator based on historical analysis of atomic/store instruction pairs during runtime and performing lock elision when the critical section estimator indicates that the atomic/store instruction pairs define a critical section.