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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2012
Applicants:

Vladimir Vasekin, Cambridge, GB;

Andrew Christopher Rose, Cambridge, GB;

Allan John Skillman, Kettering, GB;

Antony John Penton, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Vladimir Vasekin, Cambridge, GB;

Andrew Christopher Rose, Cambridge, GB;

Allan John Skillman, Kettering, GB;

Antony John Penton, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 11/267 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06F 11/267 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multithreading processorinterleaves program instructions from different program threads to perform fine grained multithreading. Thread performance monitoring circuitrymonitors performance parameters of individual program threads to generate performance values. Issue control circuitryreads these performance values to determine which program thread is next selected to be active when a thread switch event occurs. The performance parameters measured may include the proportion of cycles in which a program thread is able to provide a program instruction for execution by the execution circuitrywithin the processor


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