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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021

Filed:

May. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Shyamkumar T. Iyer, Austin, TX (US);

William Price Dawkins, Lakeway, TX (US);

Kurtis John Bowman, Austin, TX (US);

Jimmy Doyle Pike, Georgetown, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/461 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0646 (2013.01); G06F 9/30123 (2013.01); G06F 15/17381 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory-fabric-based processor context switching system includes server devices coupled to a memory fabric. A first processing system in a first server device receives a request to move a process it is executing and, in response, copies first processing system context values to its first local memory system in the first server device, and generates a first data mover instruction that causes a first data mover device in the first server device to transmit the first processing system context values from the first local memory system to the memory fabric. A second processing system in a second server device generates a second data mover instruction that causes a second data mover device in the second server device to retrieve the first processing system context values from the memory fabric and provide the first processing system context values in a second local memory system included in the second server device.


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