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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
Applicants:
Kushagra Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);
John Crawford, Saratoga, CA (US);
Allen Baum, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporaiton, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for performing barrier synchronization among a plurality of program threads. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention keeps track of completed tasks associated with a number of program threads using bits within a barrier register that can be updated and reassigned without incurring the amount of bus traffic as in the prior art.