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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chunhui Mei, San Diego, CA (US);
James Valerio, North Plains, OR (US);
Supratim Pal, Folsom, CA (US);
Guei-Yuan Lueh, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Jiang, Los Altos, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to facilitate facilitating forward progress guarantee using single-level synchronization at individual thread granularity is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising a barrier synchronization hardware circuitry to assign a set of global named barrier identifiers (IDs) to individual execution threads of a plurality of execution threads and synchronize execution of the individual execution threads on a single level via the set of global named barrier IDs; and a plurality of processing resources to execute the plurality of execution threads and comprising divergent barrier scheduling hardware circuitry to facilitate execution flow switching from a first divergent branch executed by a first thread to a second divergent branch executed by a second thread, the execution flow switching performed responsive to the first thread stalling to wait on a named barrier of the set of global named barrier IDs.