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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
David Callahan, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan Gray, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinod Grover, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Bratin Saha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gad Sheaffer, Haifa, IL (US);
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
David Callahan, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan Gray, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vinod Grover, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Bratin Saha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gad Sheaffer, Haifa, IL (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for utilizing hardware mechanisms of a transactional memory system is herein described. Various embodiments relate to software-based filtering of operations from read and write barriers and read isolation barriers during transactional execution. Other embodiments relate to software-implemented read barrier processing to accelerate strong atomicity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.