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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivasan Ramani, Cary, NC (US);
Brian M Rogers, Durham, NC (US);
Ken V Vu, Cary, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for lock acquisition includes adding a current contention state of a lock to a contention history. The lock includes a memory location for storing information used for excluding accessing a resource by one or more threads while another thread accesses the resource. The method includes combining the contention history with a lock address for the lock to form a predictor table index, and using the predictor table index to determine a lock prediction for the lock. The prediction includes a determination of an amount of contention.