Process for isolating a memory location containing an...

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CA 2239796

This process makes it possible to isolate a memory location containing an obsolete value of a variable, in a computer's shared memory, this location being referenced by a pointer for access in an initial transaction, a lock called "hold" being placed on this location and being dedicated to a single task, the said hold barring access to this location for all other tasks. The process does not free up the location containing the obsolete value, but instead isolates it from transactions other than that with the initial pointer. This makes it possible for the task identified with the initial pointer to continue to access this obsolete value. Conversely, given transactions may access another value of the variable, without waiting, because the variable's descriptor forwards these transactions to a location with available access which contains this other value.

Ce procédé permet d'isoler un emplacement mémoire contenant une valeur obsolète d'une variable, dans une mémoire partagée d'un ordinateur, cet emplacement étant référencé par un pointeur pour un accès dans le cadre d'une première transaction, un verrou appelé hold étant posé sur cet emplacement et étant attribué à une seule tâche, ce hold interdisant l'accès de cet emplacement à toutes les autres tâches. Le procédé selon l'invention ne libère pas l'emplacement contenant la valeur obsolète, mais l'isole vis à vis des transactions autres que celle qui possède le premier pointeur. Ceci permet à la tâche propriétaire du premier pointeur de continuer àaccéder à cette valeur obsolète. Par contre, des transactions quelconques peuvent accéder à une autre valeur de la variable, sans attendre, parce que le descripteur de cette variable renvoie ces transactions vers un emplacement qui est libre d'accès et qui contient cette autre valeur.

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