Hierarchical queue-based locks

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2011-05-17

2011-05-17

An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

Reexamination Certificate

active

07945912

ABSTRACT:
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method of establishing a queue-based lock including inserting a first qnode into a local queue, where the first qnode is associated with a first thread, splicing the local queue into the global queue, obtaining a lock for the first thread when the first qnode is at the head of the global queue, and executing a critical section of the first thread after obtaining the lock.

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