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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2002
Stavros Kalafatis, Portland, OR (US);
Alan B. Kyker, Potland, OR (US);
Robert D. Fisch, Portland, OR (US);
Stavros Kalafatis, Portland, OR (US);
Alan B. Kyker, Potland, OR (US);
Robert D. Fisch, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of performing a thread switching operation within a multithreaded processor includes detecting dispatch of a first predetermined quantity of instruction information of a first thread, from an instruction streaming buffer to an instruction pre-decoder within the multithreaded processor. Responsive to the detection of the dispatch of the first predetermined quantity of instruction information for the first thread, a thread switching operation is performed with respect to the output of the instruction streaming buffer. The dispatch of instruction information for a second thread from the instruction streaming buffer is thus commenced. The predetermined quantity of the instruction information may be equal to or greater than a minimum quantity of instruction information for a full instruction of a first instruction set.