Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1987-12-21
1991-05-14
Shaw, Gareth D.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
3642418, 3642425, 3642287, 3642426, G06F 1314, G06F 1516
Patent
active
050161679
ABSTRACT:
In a multiprocessor system with an interleaved memory, predicted busy terms for interleaves of the main store being accessed are sent to each processor in the system, so that they will not waste pipe flows making requests to the busy interleaves. The predicted busy term is lowered before access to the interleaves is complete, to allow for the latency between the time the processor sets up the request and the time the main store system receives it. Contention occurs when several processors request access to the same interleave of main store. To detect deadlocks, a counter for each processor keeps track of the number of consecutive requests from that processor which have been rejected. Once the number reaches a threshold for a first processor, its counter initiates a state machine which inhibits other processors from making requests to the main store until the first processor is successful in gaining access.
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Daberkow Kevin L.
Nguyen Kham X.
Robinson Theodore S.
Taylor Michael D.
Amdahl Corporation
Loomis John
Shaw Gareth D.
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