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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Boris Ginzburg, Haifa, IL;
Ronny Ronen, Haifa, IL;
Eliezer Weissmann, Haifa, IL;
Karthikeyan Vaithianathan, Bangalore, IN;
Ehud Cohen, Kiryat Motskin, IL;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a processor includes an accelerator, a decoder to decode a first instruction into a decoded first instruction, and a second instruction into a decoded second instruction, and an execution unit to execute the first decoded instruction to, for a thread executing on the accelerator that is to be placed in an inactive state, cause a save of context information for the thread, and a save of a vector identifying the accelerator corresponding to the context information, and execute the second decoded instruction to read the vector to determine the accelerator to restore saved context information into for the thread, read the saved context information, and restore the saved context information into the accelerator.