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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Martin G. Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
William C. Rash, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yazmin A. Santiago, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of logical processors. A first logical processor of the plurality is to execute software that includes a memory access synchronization instruction that is to synchronize accesses to a memory. The processor also includes memory access synchronization relaxation logic that is to prevent the memory access synchronization instruction from synchronizing accesses to the memory when the processor is in a relaxed memory access synchronization mode.