In an embodiment of the invention, a method for a memory-mapped lazy preemption control, the method includes: incrementing a counter value if an operating system attempts to involuntarily context switch out a thread and fails to context switch out the thread because the thread has a flag set; checking...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7765550?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7765550 - System for controlling context switch of deferred requests using counter and flag setting of thread accessing shared resource or entering code region
System for controlling context switch of deferred requests using counter and ...