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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2005
Gil Tene, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Scott Sellers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jack Choquette, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Wolf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gil Tene, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Scott Sellers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jack Choquette, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael A. Wolf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Azul Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Managing interrupts in a computing environment includes executing an instruction, deriving an interrupt mask value based at least in part on the instruction being executed, performing a masking operation involving the interrupt mask value and at least one pending interrupt to determine whether a pending interrupt is allowable, and in the event that the pending interrupt is allowable, performing the interrupt.