LATE LOCK ACQUIRE MECHANISM FOR HARDWARE LOCK ELISION (HLE) Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G06F9/52 G06F12/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: late-lock acquire apparatus, having a logic decoding unit configured to identify lock instructions at the beginning of a critical section to acquire a lock for the critical section; a logic execution unit configured for elision of at least part of the lock instruction to acquire a lock for the critical section, store an address and lock value referred to by the lock instruction in the lock entry, and executing the critical section without a lock for the critical section; and a logic late-lock acquire unit connected to the logic execution unit. The logic late-lock acquire unit is configured to instruct the logic execution unit to attempt to execute at last part of the lock instructions to acquire a lock for the critical section after the beginning of the critical section and without re-launching the critical section in response to detection of a late-lock acquire event when expecting critical section processing.

EFFECT: providing reliable data.

24 cl, 5 dwg