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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2015
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Najeeb I. Ansari, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregg A. Bouchard, Georgetown, TX (US);
Rajan Goyal, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Pangborn, Saratoga, CA (US);
Satyanarayana Lakshmipathi Billa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, and corresponding apparatus, of managing processing thread migrations within a plurality of memory clusters, includes embedding, in memory components of the plurality of memory clusters, instructions indicative of processing thread migrations; storing, in one or more memory components of a particular memory cluster among the plurality of memory clusters, data configured to designate the particular memory cluster as a sink memory cluster, the sink memory cluster preventing an incoming migrated processing thread from migrating out of the sink memory cluster; and processing one or more processing threads, in one or more of the plurality of memory clusters, in accordance with at least one of the embedded migration instructions and the data stored in the one or more memory components of the sink memory cluster.