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Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002

Filed:

Dec. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Dion Rodgers, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Darrell Boggs, Aloha, OR (US);

Amit Merchant, Portland, OR (US);

Rajesh Kota, Aloha, OR (US);

Rachel Hsu, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Keshavan Tiruvallur, Tigard, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
Abstract

A method includes detecting a first event occurrence for a first thread being processed within a multithreaded processor. Responsive to the detection of this first event occurrence, a second thread being processed within the multithreaded processor is monitored to detect a clearing point for this second thread. Responsive to the detection of a clearing point for the second thread, a functional unit within the multithreaded processor is cleared of data for both the first and the second threads.


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