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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Benjamin G. Alexander, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory H. Bellows, Austin, TX (US);
Joaquin Madruga, Austin, TX (US);
Barry L. Minor, Austin, TX (US);
Benjamin G. Alexander, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory H. Bellows, Austin, TX (US);
Joaquin Madruga, Austin, TX (US);
Barry L. Minor, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system efficiently dispatches/completes a work element within a multi-node, data processing system that has a global command queue (GCQ) and at least one high latency node. The system comprises: at the high latency processor node, work scheduling logic establishing a local command/work queue (LCQ) in which multiple work items for execution by local processing units can be staged prior to execution; a first local processing unit retrieving via a work request a larger chunk size of work than can be completed in a normal work completion/execution cycle by the local processing unit; storing the larger chunk size of work retrieved in a local command/work queue (LCQ); enabling the first local processing unit to locally schedule and complete portions of the work stored within the LCQ; and transmitting a next work request to the GCQ only when all the work within the LCQ has been dispatched by the local processing units.