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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2007
Jack Kang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hsi-cheng Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu-chi Chuang, Jhubei, TW;
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
A system, apparatus and method for interrupt handling on a multi-thread processing device are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention provide a multi-thread processing device for interrupt handling including an interrupt block to provide interrupt signals to a fetch block, including a first interrupt signal line corresponding to a first instruction execution thread and a second interrupt signal line corresponding to a second instruction execution thread. In embodiments, the multi-thread processing device may handle interrupts by providing a shared interrupt service routine for multiple threads or by providing each thread its own unique interrupt service routine.