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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Emu Solutions, Inc., South Bend, IN (US);
Peter M. Kogge, Granger, IN (US);
EMU SOLUTIONS, INC., South Bend, IN (US);
Abstract
A system for governing the spawning of a thread from a parent thread by an application in a processor is provided. The system includes a first multiplexor module that selects from one or more registers a policy used to spawn a thread, and makes the policy available for execution. A second multiplexor module selects one or more of the policy values used in a spawn process whose policy was selected by the output of the first multiplexor module, the second multiplexor module outputs a first signal indicative of the selected policy value to accompany the selected policy, which may be given to the child thread as its initial spawn count when the policy so indicates. A third multiplexor module selects either the first signal or a null where the selected policy value of the first signal is used to update the remaining thread credits of the thread's parent.