Critical Section Speedup Using Help-Enabled Locks

A first data accessor acquires a lock associated with a critical section. The first data accessor initiates a help session associated with a first operation of the critical section. In the help session, a second data accessor (which has not acquired the first lock) performs one or more sub-operation...

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Main Authors Dice, David, Luchangco, Victor M, Lev, Yosef, Harris, Timothy L, Kogan, Alex, Zardoshti, Pantea
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 04.11.2021
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A first data accessor acquires a lock associated with a critical section. The first data accessor initiates a help session associated with a first operation of the critical section. In the help session, a second data accessor (which has not acquired the first lock) performs one or more sub-operations of the first operation. The first data accessor releases the lock after at least the first operation has been completed.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202117378488