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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2008
Applicants:
Boon Seong Ang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Lambeth, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jyothir Ramanan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Boon Seong Ang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Lambeth, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jyothir Ramanan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for maintaining processing order while permitting parallelism. Processing of a piece of work is divided into a plurality of stages. At each stage, a task advancing the work towards completion is performed. By performing processing as a sequence of tasks, processing can be done in parallel, with progress being made simultaneously on different pieces of work in different stages by a plurality of threads of execution.