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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Applicants:
Yin Nam Ko, London, GB;
Robert Graham Isherwood, Bucks, GB;
Inventors:
Yin Nam Ko, London, GB;
Robert Graham Isherwood, Bucks, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Hertfordshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically allocating an access bandwidth for one or more resources to threads of a multithreaded processor. The allocation is performed by providing an execution based metric for each thread and providing an access to the resource in dependence on the execution based metrics of the threads. In addition, or alternatively, a resource based metric can be determined and the access to the resource is provided in dependence on the resource based metric.