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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2020
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Devices and techniques for thread execution control in a barrel processor are described herein. An apparatus includes a barrel processor, which includes local memory including a hazard data structure; and thread scheduling circuitry; wherein the barrel processor is configured to perform operations through use of the thread scheduling circuitry, the operations including: identifying an instruction to place into a pipeline for the barrel processor, the instruction corresponding to a thread; reading a hazard indication entry from a hazard data structure, the hazard indication entry corresponding to the thread, and wherein the hazard indication entry is set by a preceding instruction in the thread; and in response to reading the hazard indication entry, rescheduling the thread to a later time based on the hazard identification.