US 11,669,416 B1
Using a logical operation coalescer to enable recovery from update failures to a shared data store
Ron Steinke, Tacoma, WA (US)
Assigned to DELL PRODUCTS, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/587,310.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1474 (2013.01) [G06F 2201/82 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
based on first updating activity by first updating equipment, locking, by computing equipment comprising a processor, a portion of a data structure for updates with a lock, wherein the first updating equipment has been determined to have abnormally ceased the first updating activity, resulting in an update activity failure for the first updating activity;
receiving, by the computing equipment, from second updating equipment, an indication of the update activity failure, during second updating activity of the portion; and
based on the indication, reconciling, by the computing equipment, the second updating activity and the update activity failure.