Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Paul E. McKenney

145Patents
38h-index
54Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 19, 1993 → Aug 29, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5442758A Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring Physics 235 Expired
US5608893A Method for maintaining data coherency using thread activity summaries in a multicomputer system Physics 125 Expired
US7487320B2 Apparatus and system for dynamically allocating main memory among a plurality of applications Physics 106 Expired
US5727209A Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual-exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring Physics 106 Expired
US6219690A Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring Physics 104 Expired
US6886162B1 High speed methods for maintaining a summary of thread activity for multiprocessor computer systems Physics 87 Expired
US6823511B1 Reader-writer lock for multiprocessor systems Physics 83 Expired
US6480918B1 Lingering locks with fairness control for multi-node computer systems Physics 82 Expired
US6996812B2 Software implementation of synchronous memory barriers Physics 76 Expired
US7353346B2 Read-copy-update (RCU) operations with reduced memory barrier usage Physics 62 Active
US7287135B2 Adapting RCU for real-time operating system usage Physics 62 Expired
US7953778B2 Efficient support of consistent cyclic search with read-copy update and parallel updates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Active
US7395383B2 Realtime-safe read copy update with per-processor read/write locks Physics 59 Expired
US7395263B2 Realtime-safe read copy update with lock-free readers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Active
US7747805B2 Adaptive reader-writer lock Physics 56 Active
US7653791B2 Realtime-safe read copy update with per-processor read/write locks Physics 55 Active
US7191272B2 Adaptive reader-writer lock Physics 54 Expired
US7472228B2 Read-copy update method Physics 54 Active
US7734879B2 Efficiently boosting priority of read-copy update readers in a real-time data processing system Physics 52 Active
US7454581B2 Read-copy update grace period detection without atomic instructions that gracefully handles large numbers of processors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Active
US7734881B2 Adapting RCU for real-time operating system usage Physics 51 Active
US7904436B2 Realtime-safe read copy update with lock-free readers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Active
US7814082B2 Efficient support of consistent cyclic search with read-copy-update Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Active
US7953708B2 Optimizing grace period detection for preemptible read-copy update on uniprocessor systems Physics 51 Active
US7818306B2 Read-copy-update (RCU) operations with reduced memory barrier usage Physics 51 Active

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