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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2011
Applicants:
Benjamin Thomas Sander, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Houston, Cupertino, CA (US);
Newton Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Lowery, Bothell, WA (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin Thomas Sander, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Houston, Cupertino, CA (US);
Newton Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Lowery, Bothell, WA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method and article of manufacture for an accelerated processing device (APD) to request a central processing unit (CPU) to process a task, comprising enqueuing a plurality of tasks on a queue using the APD, generating a user-level interrupt and transmitting to the CPU the plurality of tasks in the queue using an interrupt handler associated with a CPU thread.