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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
May. 30, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Guenter Gerwig, Simmozheim, DE;
Christian Jacobi, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Frank Lehnert, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Chung-Lung K. Shum, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Timothy J. Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Generating monotonically increasing time-of-day values in a multiprocessor system is provided. Synchronization impulses are received by a processor of the multiprocessor system, and an execution of a read instruction of a time-of-day value within a processor of the processors is refused, if the execution of the read instruction of the time-of-day value is requested after a predefined time after a synchronization impulse of the synchronization impulses, and if a trigger signal, indicative of new data received by a related memory system, has been received after the predefined time, wherein the memory system is external to the processor.