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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
Christopher J. Arges, Austin, TX (US);
Nathan D. Fontenot, Georgetown, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher J. Arges, Austin, TX (US);
Nathan D. Fontenot, Georgetown, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method for control access to a contested resource. When a lock acquisition request is received from a virtual machine, the partition management firmware determines whether the lock acquisition request is received within a preemption period of a time slice allocated to the virtual machine. If the lock acquisition request is received within the preemption period, the partition management firmware ends the time slice early, and performs a context switch.