Providing thread fairness by biasing selection away from a stalling thread using a stall-cycle counter in a hyper-threaded microprocessor
US8438369B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 8, 2010 |
| Grant date | May 7, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 24, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/5014
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing fairness in a multi-processing element environment is herein described. Mask elements are utilized to associated portions of a reservation station with each processing element, while still allowing common access to another portion of reservation station entries. Additionally, bias logic biases selection of processing elements in a pipeline away from a processing element associated with a blocking stall to provide fair utilization of the pipeline.
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