Maintaining a sequential store order (SSO) in a non-SSO machine
US5898840A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 1, 1996 |
| Grant date | Apr 27, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 1, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/52
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a multiprocessor system, a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for maintaining the proper sequence of store/write operations between multiple processors to remote I/O devices without requiring changes to application software. A synchronizer is employed to synchronize write operations to the remote I/O device, and the write operations are synchronized individually upon detection and emulation, or as a group upon detection of the release of a mutual exclusion lock.
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