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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2009
Susan E. Eisen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Benjamin W. Stolt, Austin, TX (US);
Susan E. Eisen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Benjamin W. Stolt, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for thread completion arbitration. The mechanism comprises executing more than two threads of instructions simultaneously in the processor, selecting a first thread from a first subset of threads, in the more than two threads, for completion of execution within the processor, and selecting a second thread from a second subset of threads, in the more than two threads, for completion of execution within the processor. The mechanism further comprises completing execution of the first and second threads by committing results of the execution of the first and second threads to a storage device associated with the processor. At least one of the first subset of threads or the second subset of threads comprise two or more threads from the more than two threads. The first subset of threads and second subset of threads have different threads from one another.