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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Harshadrai Parekh, San Jose, CA (US);
Colin Edward Honess, San Rafael, CA (US);
Douglas V. Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Swapneel Kekre, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harshadrai Parekh, San Jose, CA (US);
Colin Edward Honess, San Rafael, CA (US);
Douglas V. Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Swapneel Kekre, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer executable instructions for transferring threads are described. The method comprises determining an idle processor by checking a handoff state of the processor prior to placing an identified runnable thread in a run queue of an idle processor. The method also comprises transferring the runnable thread to a determined idle processor by setting the handoff state of the processor to a handle of the runnable thread.