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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMark A. Boonie, Jeffrey M. Nick, Peter G. Sutton, Wendell W. Wilkinson, Phil C. Yeh
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A method and apparatus of assigning and releasing locks, in a network computing environment having a plurality of central processing units coupled to a high performance locking facility. The method comprises of the steps of first receiving and processing a lock operation synchronous to any requesting central processor unit requesting a lock and then recording lock names and lock states in entry records of a lock table based on the requests. When a request is being processed, providing high-speed searching to search any particular lock entry in the table and altering and modifying the table accordingly. Finally an appropriate response and the status of the lock state will be generated and sent to other requesters requesting the lock.
In a network computing environment having at least one central processing unit coupled to a high performance locking facility, a method of receiving and processing lock operations within said high performance locking facility, comprising the steps of:
In a network computing environment having at least one central processing unit, a high performance locking facility coupled to said central processing unit said high performance locking facility comprising:
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