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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2011
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Menon, Seattle, WA (US);
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Menon, Seattle, WA (US);
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing optimized strong atomicity operations for non-transactional writes is herein described. Locks are acquired upon initial non-transactional writes to memory locations. The locks are maintained until an event is detected resulting in the release of the locks. As a result, in the intermediary period between acquiring and releasing the locks, any subsequent writes to memory locations that are locked are accelerated through non-execution of lock acquire operations.