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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2008
Adam Welc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adam Welc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bratin Saha, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for hybrid validation for a Software Transaction Memory (STM) is herein described. During execution of a transaction, when acquiring ownership of meta-data associated with a data element, the meta-data is updated with an ownership reference to a transaction to enable efficient subsequent ownership tests. However, during validation, for some conditions, meta-data is updated from the ownership reference to a write entry reference to enable efficient validation.