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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brian D. Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);
James W. Bishop, Newark Valley, NY (US);
Marcy E. Byers, Rochester, MN (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
Cliff Kucharski, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
David R. Terry, Austin, TX (US);
Jing Zhang, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes execution slices and a dispatch network of the multi-slice processor implementing a hardware level transfer of an execution thread between execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes responsive to a thread switch signal: halting dispatch of one or more instructions retrieved from an instruction cache; generating a plurality of instructions to transfer an execution thread from a first execution slice to a second execution slice; and dispatching the plurality of instructions instead of the one or more instructions retrieved from the instruction cache; and transferring, in dependence upon execution of the plurality of instructions from the thread switching instruction generator, the execution thread from the first execution slice to the second execution slice.