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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2011
Benjamin Thomas Sander, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Houston, Cupertino, CA (US);
Newton Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Lowery, Bothell, WA (US);
Benjamin Thomas Sander, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Houston, Cupertino, CA (US);
Newton Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Lowery, Bothell, WA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system and article of manufacture for balancing a workload on heterogeneous processing devices. The method comprising accessing a memory storage of a processor of one type by a dequeuing entity associated with a processor of a different type, identifying a task from a plurality of tasks within the memory that can be processed by the processor of the different type, synchronizing a plurality of dequeuing entities capable of accessing the memory storage, and dequeuing the task form the memory storage.