Method and apparatus for resource access synchronization

Details Method and apparatus for resource access synchronization Method and apparatus for resource access synchronization

2006-08-29

2006-08-29

An, Meng-Al T. (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C710S240000, C718S104000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07100161

ABSTRACT:
A resource access control mechanism for a multi-threaded computing environment associates a sequence of one or more mutexes with a resource. When a requesting thread attempts to access the resource, a mutex is locked and allocated to the requesting thread, and if a previous mutex in the sequence is present, an attempt to lock the previous mutex is made. If the previous mutex is already locked, the requesting thread is suspended until the previous mutex is unlocked.

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