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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Prasanna Kumar Balasundaram, San Diego, CA (US);
Suresh K. Venkumahanti, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3656 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method to select a packet format based on a number of executed threads is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining, at a multi-threaded processor, a number of threads of a plurality of threads executing during a time period. A packet format is determined from a plurality of formats based at least in part on the determined number of threads. Data associated with execution of an instruction by a particular thread is stored in accordance with the selected format in a memory (e.g., a buffer).