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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
James W. Willen, Shoreview, MN (US);
Hans Christian Mikkelsen, Afton, MN (US);
John Carter, Lakeville, MN (US);
Peter John Hancock, Afton, MN (US);
Michael F. Stanton, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Robert Morris, Fort Walton, FL (US);
James W. Willen, Shoreview, MN (US);
Hans Christian Mikkelsen, Afton, MN (US);
John Carter, Lakeville, MN (US);
Peter John Hancock, Afton, MN (US);
Michael F. Stanton, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Robert Morris, Fort Walton, FL (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
Driving task dispatching by an operating system in a multiprocessor computer system is accomplished with a virtual switching queue which accepts highest priority tasks from multiple switching queues which in turn are accessed by instruction processors seeking tasks. Overload, plucking and stealing of tasks may be used to effectively balance load within the computer system. Dynamic reconfiguration used where regular queues lose underlying instruction processors.