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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2002
Applicant:
David J. Koenen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventor:
David J. Koenen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for improving performance in a multi-processor system by reducing access latency by correlating processor, node and memory allocation. Specifically, a Process/Thread Scheduler is modified such that system mapping and node proximity tables may be referenced to help determine processor assignments for ready-to-run processes/threads. Processors are chosen to minimize access latency. Further, the Page Fault Handler is modified such that free memory pages are assigned to a process based partially on the proximity of the memory with respect to the processor requesting memory allocation.