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Interruption of chip component managing tasks

US9372717B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Bishop Brock · Coupland, US
Tilman Gloekler · Schrobenhausen, DE
Andreas C. Koenig · Rockford, US
Cedric Lichtenau · Stuttgart, DE
Preetham M. Lobo · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	May 8, 2014
Grant date	Jun 21, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 28, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/5038
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments include an apparatus comprising a processor and a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code. The computer usable program code can be configured to determine whether priority of a requested task is higher than a priority of a currently executing task. The computer usable program code can be further configured to determine whether a value indicates that the currently executing task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be configured to trigger execution of the requested task on the processor, if the value indicates that the currently executed task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be further configured to wait for lapse of a time period and, interrupt the currently executing task upon detection of lapse of the time period or detection of a change to the value, if the value indicates that the currently executing task cannot be interrupted.

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