US Patent Issued to Red Hat on June 30 for "Reverse restartable sequences for lock polling scalability" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,014, issued on June 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Reverse restartable sequences for lock polling scalability" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a memory, at least one processor in communication with the memory, a plurality of threads executing on the at least one processor, and a supervisor. The supervisor is configured to preempt a first thread of the plurality of threads and determine a status of the first thread as either (i) executing in an atomic section or (ii) executing outside of the atomic section. The atomic section is a region of ...