US Patent Issued to Red Hat on July 1 for "Safe critical section operations for virtual machines with virtual central processing unit overcommit" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,745, issued on July 1, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Safe critical section operations for virtual machines with virtual central processing unit overcommit" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Safe critical section operations for virtual machines with virtual central processing unit overcommit are provided by: in response to identifying a preempting task to run on a first physical central processing unit (PCPU) from a second PCPU, setting a status of a flag in a virtual memory used by a first virtual central processing unit (VCPU) running on the first PCPU to indicate t...