Method and apparatus for idling and waking threads by a...

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2011-03-08

2011-03-08

Li, Aimee J (Department: 2183)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

Mode switch or change

C712S042000, C712S244000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07904703

ABSTRACT:
A system, apparatus and method for idling and waking threads by a multithread processing device are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention provide a multithread processing device for idling and waking threads including a scheduler configured to determine a bandwidth request mode of a first instruction execution thread and allocate zero execution cycles of an instruction execution period to the first instruction execution thread if the bandwidth request mode is an idle mode. In various embodiments, the multithread processing device may be configured to wake the first instruction thread by allocating one or more execution cycles to the first instruction execution thread if the bandwidth request mode is modified to a wake mode. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

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