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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2011
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Lausanne, CH;
Maurice Herlihy, Brookline, MA (US);
Yosef Lev, New York, NY (US);
Mark S. Moir, Wellington, NZ;
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Lausanne, CH;
Maurice Herlihy, Brookline, MA (US);
Yosef Lev, New York, NY (US);
Mark S. Moir, Wellington, NZ;
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
The systems and methods described herein may be used to implement a shared dynamic-sized data structure using hardware transactional memory to simplify and/or improve memory management of the data structure. An application (or thread thereof) may indicate (or register) the intended use of an element of the data structure and may initialize the value of the data structure element. Thereafter, another thread or application may use hardware transactions to access the data structure element while confirming that the data structure element is still part of the dynamic data structure and/or that memory allocated to the data structure element has not been freed. Various indicators may be used determine whether memory allocated to the element can be freed.