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Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mauricio Serrano, Bronx, NY (US);

Giles Frazier, Austin, TX (US);

Silvia Melitta Mueller, Altdorf, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30098 (2013.01); G06F 9/30141 (2013.01); G06F 9/3887 (2013.01); G06F 15/8007 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing device and a method of allocating vector register files in a simultaneously-multithreaded (SMT) processor core are provided. A request for a first number (M) of vector register files is received from a borrower thread of the processor core. One or more available donor threads of the processor core are identified. A second number (N) of the vector register files, of the identified one or more available donor threads, are assigned to the borrower thread, where N is ≤M. The borrower thread is parameterized to create a virtualized vector register file for the borrower thread, based on a width of the N vector register files of the identified one or more donor threads.


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