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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
May. 19, 2010
Applicants:
David W. Burns, Portland, OR (US);
K. S. Venkatraman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Inventors:
David W. Burns, Portland, OR (US);
K. S. Venkatraman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method, apparatus and system embodiments to assign priority to a thread when the thread is otherwise unable to proceed with instruction retirement. For at least one embodiment, the thread is one of a plurality of active threads in a multiprocessor system that includes memory livelock breaker logic and/or starvation avoidance logic. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.