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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2002
Thomas Charles Jarvis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Steven Robert Lowe, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sam Clark Werner, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Dennis Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas Charles Jarvis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Steven Robert Lowe, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sam Clark Werner, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Dennis Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for increasing processor utilization. A list of work is divided for processing among a plurality of processes, wherein a process is allocated a part of the list of work to process, and the processes execute in parallel. If a process completes the list of work allocated to the process then the process is made available on an available process queue. Before a process performs any work, the process reads the available process queue and determines if any process is available to share the work. If so, the work is split up between the examining process and the available process. In one implementation, the work involves scanning a cache and if necessary destage data.