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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Ajith Jayamohan, Redmond, WA (US);
Arun U. Kishan, Kirkland, WA (US);
David B. Probert, Woodinville, WA (US);
Pedro Teixeira, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 9/461 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 13/1626 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments for performing cooperative user mode scheduling between user mode schedulable (UMS) threads and primary threads are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, privileged hardware states are transferred from a kernel portion of a UMS thread to a kernel portion of a primary thread.