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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2011
Jeffrey Schroeder, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeff Pangborn, Saratoga, CA (US);
Najeeb Ansari, San Jose, CA (US);
Bryan Chin, San Diego, CA (US);
Leo Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ahmed Shahid, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Scrobohaci, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Chee HU, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Carns, San Jose, CA (US);
Wu YE, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian Hunter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Schroeder, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeff Pangborn, Saratoga, CA (US);
Najeeb Ansari, San Jose, CA (US);
Bryan Chin, San Diego, CA (US);
Leo Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ahmed Shahid, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Scrobohaci, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Chee Hu, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Carns, San Jose, CA (US);
Wu Ye, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian Hunter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a processor comprises a plurality of hardware resources, each hardware resource having a clock cycle. The processor also comprises a plurality of work stores, each work store assigned into one of a plurality of virtual functions if a mode of the processor is set to a virtual function mode, and each work store assigned into one physical function if the mode of the processor is set to a physical function mode. The processor further comprises dispatch logic configured to dispatch work from any work store corresponding to any virtual function or physical function to any released hardware resources.