Thermal availability based instruction assignment for execution

Abstract

An instruction control interface is provided for automatically controlling assigning of one or more instructions for processing by one or more processor cores of a computing device. The control interface separately monitors temperatures of multiple logic units within each processor core of the processor core(s) of the computing device, and controls assigning of one or more instructions for processing by a particular processor core(s) based, at least in part, on the separately monitored temperatures of the multiple logic units within the processor core(s). By separately monitoring temperature of logic units within a processor core, the interface automatically determines whether to assign the current instruction for execution without temperature-induced change, whether to reassign the instruction(s) to another processor core, whether to convert the current instruction to execute on different logic units of a particular processor core than the current instruction(s), or to reorder a sequence of execution of the instruction(s).