Cavium, Inc.

Brian Hunter

Bryan Chin

Ahmed Shahid

Najeeb Imran Ansari

Jeffrey Schroeder

Paul G Scrobohaci

Chee Hu

Michael Carns

Wu Ye

Leo Chen

Jeff Pangborn

In one embodiment, a processor comprises a plurality of hardware resources, each hardware resource having a clock cycle. The processor also comprises a plurality of work stores, each work store assigned into one of a plurality of virtual functions if a mode of the processor is set to a virtual function mode, and each work store assigned into one physical function if the mode of the processor is set to a physical function mode. The processor further comprises dispatch logic configured to dispatch work from any work store corresponding to any virtual function or physical function to any released hardware resources.

Processor with dedicated virtual functions and dynamic assignment of functional resources

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Brian Hunter