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Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Srinath Duvuru, Portland, OR (US);

Marco Greco, Staines, GB;

Jeffrey A. McMahon, Kansas City, MO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/526 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01); G06F 9/524 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to managing exclusive control of a shareable resource between a plurality of concurrently executing threads. An aspect includes determining the number of concurrently executing threads waiting for exclusive control of the shareable resource. Another aspect includes, responsive to a determination that the number of concurrently executing threads waiting for exclusive control of the shareable resource exceeds a pre-determined value, one or more of said concurrently executing threads terminating its wait for exclusive control of the shareable resource. Another aspect includes, responsive to a determination that the number of concurrently executing threads waiting for exclusive control of the shareable resource is less than a pre-determined value, one or more of said one or more concurrently executing threads which terminated its wait for exclusive control of the shareable resource, restarting a wait for exclusive control of the shareable resource.


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