Patent
1996-07-01
1999-04-27
Auve, Glenn A.
395826, 395856, G06F 1516
Patent
active
058988408
ABSTRACT:
In a multiprocessor system, a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for maintaining the proper sequence of store/write operations between multiple processors to remote I/O devices without requiring changes to application software. A synchronizer is employed to synchronize write operations to the remote I/O device, and the write operations are synchronized individually upon detection and emulation, or as a group upon detection of the release of a mutual exclusion lock.
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Guzovskiy Aleksandr
Nesheim William A.
Singhal Ashok
Auve Glenn A.
Kubida William J.
Pinto James A.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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