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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
Patrick J. Bohrer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Ahmed Gheith, Austin, TX (US);
James L. Peterson, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick J. Bohrer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Ahmed Gheith, Austin, TX (US);
James L. Peterson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Creating a thread of execution in a computer processor, including copying, as indicated by a hardware processor opcode having been specified by a user-level process, data from a first set of registers to a second set of registers, wherein the first set of registers is associated with a parent hardware thread, wherein the second set of registers is associated with a child hardware thread, wherein the child hardware thread is in a wait state, and changing, as indicated by the hardware processor opcode, the child hardware thread from the wait state to an ephemeral run state.