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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2006
Applicants:
Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, MA (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Victor M. Luchangco, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, MA (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Victor M. Luchangco, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method of establishing a queue-based lock including inserting a first qnode into a local queue, where the first qnode is associated with a first thread, splicing the local queue into the global queue, obtaining a lock for the first thread when the first qnode is at the head of the global queue, and executing a critical section of the first thread after obtaining the lock.