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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2006
Applicants:

Matthew Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Avinash Sodani, Portland, OR (US);

James Hadley, Portland, OR (US);

Alexandre Farcy, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Iredamola Olopade, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Avinash Sodani, Portland, OR (US);

James Hadley, Portland, OR (US);

Alexandre Farcy, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Iredamola Olopade, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining if an instruction of a first thread dispatched from a first queue associated with the first thread is stalled in a pipestage of a pipeline, and if so, dispatching an instruction of a second thread from a second queue associated with the second thread to the pipeline if the second thread is not stalled. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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