Inventors:
Richard A. Hankins - San Jose CA, US
Hong Wang - Fremont CA, US
Gautham N. Chinya - Hillsboro OR, US
Trung A. Diep - San Jose CA, US
Shivnandan D. Kaushik - Portland OR, US
Bryant E. Bigbee - Scottsdale AZ, US
John P. Shen - San Jose CA, US
Asit K. Mallick - Santa Clara CA, US
Baiju V. Patel - Portland OR, US
James Paul Held - Portland OR, US
Milind B. Girkar - Sunnyvale CA, US
Prashant Sethi - Folsom CA, US
Xinmin Tian - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
G06F 9/46
Abstract:
Method, apparatus and system embodiments to schedule OS-independent “shreds” without intervention of an operating system. For at least one embodiment, the shred is scheduled for execution by a scheduler routine rather than the operating system. A scheduler routine may run on each enabled sequencer. The schedulers may retrieve shred descriptors from a queue system. The sequencer associated with the scheduler may then execute the shred described by the descriptor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.