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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2016
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander D. Breslow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nuwan S. Jayasena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dong Ping Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for migrating execution contexts are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of processing units and memory devices. The system is configured to execute any number of software applications. The system is configured to detect, within a first software application, a primitive for migrating at least a portion of the execution context of a source processing unit to a target processing unit, wherein the primitive includes one or more instructions. The execution context includes a plurality of registers. A first processing unit is configured to execute the one or more instructions of the primitive to cause a portion of an execution context of the first processing unit to be migrated to a second processing unit. In one embodiment, executing the primitive instruction(s) causes an instruction pointer value, with an optional offset value, to be sent to the second processing unit.