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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
John P. Bates, Redwood City, CA (US);
Payton R. White, Foster City, CA (US);
Attila Vass, Foster City, CA (US);
John P. Bates, Redwood City, CA (US);
Payton R. White, Foster City, CA (US);
Attila Vass, Foster City, CA (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for cell processors are disclosed. A policy module is loaded from a main memory of a cell processor into the local memory of a selected synergistic processing unit (SPU) under control of an SPU policy module manager (SPMM) running on the SPU. The policy module loads a work queue from the main memory into the local memory of the SPU. The policy module interprets and process one or more tasks from the work queue on the SPU. The selected SPU performs the task(s) and after completion or upon a pre-emption, returns control of the SPU to the SPMM.