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Patent No.:

US 6993767 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006

Filed:

May. 30, 2003

System for preventing periodic load balancing if processor associated with lightest local run queue has benefited from idle processor load balancing within a determined time period

Applicants:

Larry Bert Brenner, Austin, TX (US);

Luke Matthew Browning, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Larry Bert Brenner, Austin, TX (US);

Luke Matthew Browning, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Duke W. Yee

Mark S. Walker

Gerald H. Glanzman

Primary Examiner:

Meng-Al T An

Assistant Examiner:

Lilian Vo

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus and methods for periodic load balancing in a multiple run queue system are provided. The apparatus includes a controller, memory, initial load balancing device, idle load balancing device, periodic load balancing device, and starvation load balancing device. The apparatus performs initial load balancing, idle load balancing, periodic load balancing and starvation load balancing to ensure that the workloads for the processors of the system are optimally balanced.

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