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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hong Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Xiang Zou, Hillsboro, OR (US);
John P. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Xinmin Tian, Union City, CA (US);
Milind Girkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Perry H. Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Piyush N. Desai, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Method, apparatus, and program means for a programmable event driven yield mechanism that may activate other threads. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a plurality of instructions and a monitor to detect a condition indicating a low level of progress. The monitor can disrupt processing of a program by transferring to a handler in response to detecting the condition indicating a low level of progress. In another embodiment, thread switch logic may be coupled to a plurality of event monitors which monitor events within the multithreading execution logic. The thread switch logic switches threads based at least partially on a programmable condition of one or more of the performance monitors.