Patent ID: 8166255

Claim:
A computer readable medium embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for executing a transaction comprising: a program storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to convert a regular transaction to a reservation-required transaction (RRT) upon a buffer overflowing for an uncommitted memory write operation of the regular transaction, wherein the buffer stores data for the uncommitted memory write operations of the regular transaction; computer readable program code configured to attempt to reserve, in the RRT, one or more memory locations the RRT is to read or modify before issuing a store operation to a transactional memory address, wherein the transactional memory address maintains a most recent value recorded before the RRT is started, wherein the one or more memory locations includes every memory location the RRT is to read or modify; and computer readable program code configured to perform one of executing the store operation to the transactional memory address using at least one of the reserved memory locations or aborting the RRT before the store operation to the transactional memory address is executed upon determining that the reservation of the transactional memory address of the RRT cannot be completed.