Six instructions for the manipulation of discontinuous memory locations in a computer memory are described. They are: Compare and Load (CL), Compare and Swap (CS), Double Compare and Swap (DCS), Compare and Swap and Store (CSST), Compare and Swap and Double Store (CSDST), and Compare and Swap and Triple...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6128710?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6128710 - Method utilizing a set of blocking-symbol resource-manipulation instructions for protecting the integrity of data in noncontiguous data objects of resources in a shared memory of a multiple processor computer system
Method utilizing a set of blocking-symbol resource-manipulation instructions ...
