Using police threads to detect dependence violations to reduce speculative parallelization overhead
US8151255B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 26, 2006 |
| Grant date | Apr 3, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 29, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/526
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for detecting a dependence violation in an application that involves executing a plurality of sections of the application in parallel, and logging memory transactions that occur while executing the plurality of sections to obtain a plurality of logs and a plurality of temporary results, where the plurality of logs is compared while executing the plurality of sections to determine whether the dependence violation exists.
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