- Patent Title: Combining states of multiple threads in a multi-threaded processor
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Application No.: US15885955Application Date: 2018-02-01
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Publication No.: US10452396B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Simon Christian Knowles
- Applicant: Graphcore Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Bristol
- Assignee: Graphcore Limited
- Current Assignee: Graphcore Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Bristol
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Priority: GB1717300.6 20171020
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06F15/173 ; G06F15/80 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F9/52 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/50

Abstract:
A processor comprising: an execution unit, multiple context register sets, a scheduler arranged to control the execution unit to provide a repeating sequence of temporally interleaved time slots, thereby enabling at least one respective worker thread to be allocated for execution in each respective one of some or all of the time slots, wherein a program state of the respective worker thread currently executing in each time slot is maintained in a respective one of the context register sets; and an exit state register arranged to store an aggregated exit state the worker threads. The instruction set comprises an exit instruction for inclusion in each worker thread, the exit state instruction taking an individual exit state of the respective thread as an operand. The exit instruction terminates the respective worker and also cause the individual exit state specified in the operand to contribute to the aggregated exit state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190121638A1 COMBINING STATES OF MULTIPLE THREADS IN A MULTI-THREADED PROCESSOR Public/Granted day:2019-04-25
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