Architecture and services supporting reconfigurable synchronization in a multiprocessing system
US10360079B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/27
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A synchronization method in a multiprocessor system is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of synchronization mechanisms for synchronizing data to be accessed by a plurality of concurrently executable tasks, analyzing design information and runtime information for application software that includes the concurrently executable tasks, identifying, based on the analysis, software architecture patterns for the concurrently executable tasks that access a shared variable, and associating, based on the analysis, each of the software architecture patterns to one or more of the synchronization mechanisms. The method further includes generating synchronization table entries for a synchronization table that identify the shared variable, the software architecture pattern for the concurrently executable tasks that access the shared variable, and the one or more synchronization mechanisms associated with the software architecture pattern and also includes accessing the shared variable using the one or more synchronization mechanisms identified in the synchronization table.
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