System for dialog among processors and dispatching processes to processors which monitors the number of acknowledgements to processing requests
US5367693A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 5, 1991 |
| Grant date | Nov 22, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 5, 2011 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F15/167
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
For certain operations executed in a multiprocessor system, the processors communicate with one another by exchanging requests and acknowledgements. To improve performance, the invention proposes a method by which the operations which require sending of multiple requests proceed without taking into account the reception of the acknowledgements. The total number of requests required is calculated and the number of acknowledgements received is counted. The end of the operation is conditioned by the equality of these two numbers. The invention also relates to a system for employing the method, and to the application of the method to dispatching.
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