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Interprocessor Communications Includes Second Cpu Designating Memory Locations Assigned To First Cpu And Writing Their Addresses Into Registers

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US Patent:
51230941, Jun 16, 1992
Filed:
Jan 26, 1990
Appl. No.:
7/471093
Inventors:
Myron H. MacDougall - Sunnyvale CA
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc. - Cupertino CA
International Classification:
G06F 946
US Classification:
395375
Abstract:
A method for performing inter-processor communications in a multiprocessor system combines the sending of a message with the sending of a message interrupt. Messages are exchanged through a shared memory organized into pages, each of which may be "owned" by a processor. When a sending processor executes a store instruction that stores its operand to a memory area owned by a destination processor, a message interrupt is presented to the destination processor. If the destination processor is interrupt enabled, the operand of the store instruction is stored at the address specified by the store instruction and that address is stored in a register of the destination processor. Execution of the store instruction by the sending processor then completes.
Myron H Macdougall from Sacramento, CA, age ~90 Get Report