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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
May. 27, 2010
Freeman Leigh Rawson, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
William Evan Speight, Austin, TX (US);
Lixin Zhang, Austin, TX (US);
Freeman Leigh Rawson, III, Austin, TX (US);
William Evan Speight, Austin, TX (US);
Lixin Zhang, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer usable program product for improved register allocation in a simultaneous multithreaded processor. A determination is made that a thread of an application in the data processing environment needs more physical registers than are available to allocate to the thread. The thread is configured to utilize a logical register that is mapped to a memory register. The thread is executed utilizing the physical registers and the memory registers.