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Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Marek Targowski, Gdynia, PL;

Inventor:

Marek Targowski, Gdynia, PL;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/522 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for the processing of EU threads (also known as warps) in a thread group. The status of each EU thread in the group may be monitored, to determine if it is executing or if it is halted and waiting at a synchronization barrier. If certain threshold conditions are met, the waiting EU threads may be preempted to allow execution of threads from another thread group. The threshold conditions may include a minimum number of EUs in use, a minimum number of EU threads in the first thread group that are waiting at the synchronization barrier and/or a maximum number of EU threads that are still executing, and a minimum wait time for one or more of the EU threads waiting at the barrier.


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