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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gautham Chinya, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Hong Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Prashant Sethi, Folsom, CA (US);
Shivnandan Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
Bryant Bigbee, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Hankins, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xiang Zou, Beaverton, OR (US);
Baiju V. Patel, Portland, OR (US);
Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);
Anil Aggarwal, Portland, OR (US);
John L. Reid, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of creating, based on an operating-system-scheduled thread running on an operating-system-visible sequencer and using an instruction set extension, a persistent user-level thread to run on an operating-system-sequestered sequencer independently of context switch activities on the operating-system-scheduled thread. The operating-system-scheduled thread and the persistent user-level thread may share a common virtual address space. Embodiments of the invention may also provide a method of causing a service thread running on an additional operating-system-visible sequencer to provide operating system services to the persistent user-level thread. Embodiments of the invention may further provide apparatus, system, and machine-readable medium thereof.