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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ramachandra N Pai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Yun Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Guang Rong Xiao, Shanghai, CN;
Wei Yang, Shanghai, CN;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A non-preemption task group apparatus comprises a scheduling module that identifies a first task that is one of executing and scheduled to execute on a processor during a first time slice and a second task to be executed on a processor during a subsequent time slice, the first slice occurring before the subsequent slice, a relationship module that compares the first task to the second task, and an examining module that identifies whether the first task and the second task are interchangeable tasks based on the comparison, wherein the first task executes during the subsequent time slice in response to the first task and the second task being identified as interchangeable.