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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Torvald Riegel, Dresden, DE;
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/467 (2013.01); G06F 12/0828 (2013.01); G06F 12/1466 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes identifying a set of instructions to be executed as a transaction that is to access a section of memory, prior to executing the set of instructions as the transaction, facilitating a non-speculative access to a data cache, the data cache comprising a plurality of cache lines, each cache line comprising a lock to lock a respective portion of the memory, determining if the section of memory is available for the transaction in view of locks of the plurality of cache lines, and in response to a determination that the section of memory is not available, causing the non-speculative access to the data cache to be repeated.