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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2005
Applicants:

Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);

Ori Shalev, Kiron, IL;

Inventors:

Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);

Ori Shalev, Kiron, IL;

Assignee:

Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of address-level log-based synchronization comprises a thread attempting to acquire a lock on an object. If its lock attempt fails, a thread logs, at a synchronization log, data access operations directed at the shared data object, and waits for a notification from the lock-owning thread indicating whether the logged operations succeeded. If its lock attempt succeeds, the lock-owning thread performs data access operations on the shared data object, and arbitrates among requests logged by other threads in the synchronization log, applying the modifications logged in the requests that do not conflict with other modification operations, and rejecting the requests that conflict. The master sends a success notification to the logging threads whose requests were accepted, and a failure notification to the logging threads whose requests were rejected.


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