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Preventing unintended loss of transactional data in hardware transactional memory systems

US8352688B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · US

Inventors

Jaewoong Chung · Suwon-si, KR
David S. Christie · Austin, US
Michael P. Hohmuth · Dresden, DE
Stephan Diestelhorst · Dresden, DE
Martin T. Pohlack · Dresden, DE
Luke Yen · Ayer, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 15, 2010
Grant date	Jan 8, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 8, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/3854
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus are disclosed for implementing early release of speculatively read data in a hardware transactional memory system. A processing core comprises a hardware transactional memory system configured to receive an early release indication for a specified word of a group of words in a read set of an active transaction. The early release indication comprises a request to remove the specified word from the read set. In response to the early release request, the processing core removes the group of words from the read set only after determining that no word in the group other than the specified word has been speculatively read during the active transaction.

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