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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
May. 16, 2008
Paul F. Ringseth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niklas Gustafsson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Genevieve Fernandes, Redmond, WA (US);
Paul F. Ringseth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niklas Gustafsson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Genevieve Fernandes, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A scheduler in a process of a computer system includes a local collection of tasks for each processing resource allocated to the scheduler and at least one general collection of tasks. The scheduler assigns each task that becomes unblocked to the local collection corresponding to the processing resource that caused the task to become unblocked. When a processing resource becomes available, the processing resource attempts to execute the most recently added task in the corresponding local collection. If there are no tasks in the corresponding local collection, the available processing resource attempts to execute a task from the general collection.