1. A article of manufacture including one or more machine-accessible medium having executable code stored thereon which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to: receive one or more semaphore modification requests from one or more requesting devices; identify an ownership state of a semaphore corresponding to the one or more semaphore modification requests; arbitrate to identify a first modification request of the one or more semaphore modification requests, the first modification request from a first requesting device; allow the first modification request to succeed if the identified ownership state corresponds to the first requesting device; and allow the first modification request to succeed if the identified ownership state corresponds to no ownership.