Software locking mechanism for locking shared resources in a dat

Details Software locking mechanism for locking shared resources in a dat Software locking mechanism for locking shared resources in a dat

1997-06-30

2000-06-13

Sheikh, Ayaz R.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Intrasystem connection

Bus access regulation

710107, 710200, 711150, 711152, 709210, G06F 1316, G06F 1214

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060761261

ABSTRACT:
A shared resource lock mechanism is provided which enables processors in a mullet-processor environment which each share common resources to obtain locks on those resources using a read modify write type transaction which does not at any point in time require the locking of a bus or a memory which contains the lock records used to lock the particular resources.

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