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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Curtis Duane Kronlund, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Scott Alan Moore, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory Allan Olson, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark Douglas Schroeder, Rochester, MN (US);
Curtis Duane Kronlund, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Scott Alan Moore, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory Allan Olson, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark Douglas Schroeder, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, program product and method utilize metadata collected for a lock in a computer program to determine an optimal lock acquisition strategy for the lock. The metadata is typically collected via profiling of the computer program to determine a wait characteristic for the lock in the particular runtime environment in which the computer program executes, and the metadata is used to select from among different lock access implementations to be used to attempt to acquire the lock, often enabling an optimum lock access implementation to be selected for a lock.