US Patent:
20120072984, Mar 22, 2012
Inventors:
MICHAEL S. BAIR - Banks OR, US
David W. Burns - Portland OR, US
Robert S. Chappell - Portland OR, US
Prakash Math - Portland OR, US
Leslie A. Ong - Portland OR, US
Pankaj Raghuvanshi - Hillsboro OR, US
Shlomo Raikin - Geva Carmel, IL
Raanan Sade - Kibutz Gvat, IL
Michael D. Tucknott - Hillsboro OR, US
Igor Yanover - Nesher, IL
International Classification:
G06F 21/00
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for identifying a termination sequence for an atomic memory operation executed by a first thread, associating a timer with the first thread, and preventing the first thread from execution of a memory cluster operation after completion of the atomic memory operation until a prevention window has passed. This method may be executed by regulation logic associated with a memory execution unit of a processor, in some embodiments. Other embodiments are described and claimed.