Patent ID: 6721775
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for analyzing resource contention in a computing environment, said method comprising:providing and associating task related waiter queues (TRWQs) to tasks in the computing environment, wherein each TRWQ is associated with a particular task and contains a listing of any requests waiting for a computer environment resource for that task, said requests being listed in a first-in/first-out manner; (i) selecting a current waiting request for a resource; (ii) locating a current top blocker request for said resource using a resource queue for said resource; (iii) linking to the task related waiter queue (TRWQ) for the task generating the current top blocker request; and (iv) searching that TRWQ for any waiting request made by the task generating the current top blocker request, and if there are no waiting requests associated with the current top blocker, resource contention analysis is complete.