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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1992
Pamela H Dewey, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
William J Glynn, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Roger E Hough, Highland, NY (US);
Manohar R Rao, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A tightly-coupled processor complex comprises two or more processors, the complex being asymmetric in that a feature available on one processor is not available on at least one other processor. A work selection mechanism selects one of a set of one or more ready work units, each capable of execution on one or more of the asymmetric processors. A processor set identification function identifies an 'indirect idle' set of processors which can participate as hosts in work reassignment to make use of a previously idle processor, and identifies an 'indirect bump' set of processors which can participate as hosts in work reassignment to displace a lowest priority work unit previously executing - any work reassignment being initiated by an assigner means and comprising an optimized number of work reassignment steps reassigning work among one of the processor sets to accomplish a related assignment goal (making use of a previously idle processor, or displacing a lowest priority work unit).
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