公开(公告)号：US20160019067A1

公开(公告)日：2016-01-21

申请号：US14866875

申请日：2015-09-26

申请人： Hong Wang ,  John P. Shen ,  Edward T. Grochowski ,  Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Xiang Chris Zou ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Scott Dion Rodgers ,  Xinmin Tian ,  Anil Aggawal ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James P Held

发明人： Hong Wang ,  John P. Shen ,  Edward T. Grochowski ,  Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Xiang Chris Zou ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Scott Dion Rodgers ,  Xinmin Tian ,  Anil Aggawal ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James P Held

IPC分类号： G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/30

CPC分类号： G06F9/3867 ,  G06F9/30003 ,  G06F9/30043 ,  G06F9/3005 ,  G06F9/3009 ,  G06F9/30145 ,  G06F9/3017 ,  G06F9/30174 ,  G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/4843 ,  G06F9/4881

摘要： In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes managing user-level threads on a first instruction sequencer in response to executing user-level instructions on a second instruction sequencer that is under control of an application level program. A first user-level thread is run on the second instruction sequencer and contains one or more user level instructions. A first user level instruction has at least 1) a field that makes reference to one or more instruction sequencers or 2) implicitly references with a pointer to code that specifically addresses one or more instruction sequencers when the code is executed.

公开(公告)号：US08607235B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-10

申请号：US11027445

申请日：2004-12-30

申请人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Hong Wang ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Asit K. Mallick ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James Paul Held ,  Milind B. Girkar ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Xinmin Tian

发明人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Hong Wang ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Asit K. Mallick ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James Paul Held ,  Milind B. Girkar ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Xinmin Tian

IPC分类号： G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F9/4843

摘要： Method, apparatus and system embodiments to schedule OS-independent “shreds” without intervention of an operating system. For at least one embodiment, the shred is scheduled for execution by a scheduler routine rather than the operating system. A scheduler routine may run on each enabled sequencer. The schedulers may retrieve shred descriptors from a queue system. The sequencer associated with the scheduler may then execute the shred described by the descriptor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

摘要翻译： 方法，装置和系统实施例来调度不依赖于操作系统的OS无关的“碎片”。 对于至少一个实施例，碎片被调度为由调度器例程而不是操作系统执行。 调度程序例程可以在每个启用的顺控程序上运行。 调度器可以从队列系统检索碎片描述符。 与调度器相关联的定序器然后可以执行由描述符描述的碎片。 还描述和要求保护其他实施例。

公开(公告)号：US20140115594A1

公开(公告)日：2014-04-24

申请号：US14067223

申请日：2013-10-30

申请人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Hong Wang ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Asit K. Mallick ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James Paul Held ,  Milind B. Girkar ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Xinmin Tian

发明人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Hong Wang ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Asit K. Mallick ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  James Paul Held ,  Milind B. Girkar ,  Prashant Sethi ,  Xinmin Tian

IPC分类号： G06F9/48

CPC分类号： G06F9/4843

摘要： Method, apparatus and system embodiments to schedule OS-independent “shreds” without intervention of an operating system. For at least one embodiment, the shred is scheduled for execution by a scheduler routine rather than the operating system. A scheduler routine may run on each enabled sequencer. The schedulers may retrieve shred descriptors from a queue system. The sequencer associated with the scheduler may then execute the shred described by the descriptor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

摘要翻译： 方法，装置和系统实施例来调度不依赖于操作系统的OS无关的“碎片”。 对于至少一个实施例，碎片被调度为由调度器例程而不是操作系统执行。 调度程序例程可以在每个启用的顺控程序上运行。 调度器可以从队列系统检索碎片描述符。 与调度器相关联的定序器然后可以执行由描述符描述的碎片。 还描述和要求保护其他实施例。

公开(公告)号：US08010969B2

公开(公告)日：2011-08-30

申请号：US11151809

申请日：2005-06-13

申请人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

发明人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F7/38

CPC分类号： G06F11/3466 ,  G06F11/348 ,  G06F2201/86 ,  G06F2201/88

摘要： A technique to monitor software thread performance and update software that issues or uses the thread(s) to reduce performance-inhibiting events. At least one embodiment of the invention uses hardware and/or software timers or counters to monitor various events associated with executing user-level threads and report these events back to a user-level software program, which can use the information to avoid or at least reduce performance-inhibiting events associated with the user-level threads.

摘要翻译： 监控软件线程性能和更新发布或使用线程以减少性能阻碍事件的软件的技术。 本发明的至少一个实施例使用硬件和/或软件定时器或计数器来监视与执行用户级线程相关联的各种事件并将这些事件报告回用户级软件程序，其可以使用该信息来避免或至少 减少与用户级线程相关联的性能抑制事件。

公开(公告)号：US08887174B2

公开(公告)日：2014-11-11

申请号：US13191317

申请日：2011-07-26

申请人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

发明人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F11/34

CPC分类号： G06F11/3466 ,  G06F11/348 ,  G06F2201/86 ,  G06F2201/88

摘要： A technique to monitor software thread performance and update software that issues or uses the thread(s) to reduce performance-inhibiting events. At least one embodiment of the invention uses hardware and/or software timers or counters to monitor various events associated with executing user-level threads and report these events back to a user-level software program, which can use the information to avoid or at least reduce performance-inhibiting events associated with the user-level threads.

摘要翻译： 监控软件线程性能和更新发布或使用线程以减少性能阻碍事件的软件的技术。 本发明的至少一个实施例使用硬件和/或软件定时器或计数器来监视与执行用户级线程相关联的各种事件并将这些事件报告回用户级软件程序，其可以使用该信息来避免或至少 减少与用户级线程相关联的性能抑制事件。

公开(公告)号：US20120017221A1

公开(公告)日：2012-01-19

申请号：US13191317

申请日：2011-07-26

申请人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

发明人： Richard A. Hankins ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Hong Wang ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  John P. Shen ,  Trung A. Diep ,  Xiang Zou ,  Baiju V. Patel ,  Paul M. Petersen ,  Sanjiv M. Shah ,  Ryan N. Rakvic ,  Prashant Sethi

IPC分类号： G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F11/3466 ,  G06F11/348 ,  G06F2201/86 ,  G06F2201/88

摘要： A technique to monitor software thread performance and update software that issues or uses the thread(s) to reduce performance-inhibiting events. At least one embodiment of the invention uses hardware and/or software timers or counters to monitor various events associated with executing user-level threads and report these events back to a user-level software program, which can use the information to avoid or at least reduce performance-inhibiting events associated with the user-level threads.

摘要翻译： 监控软件线程性能和更新发布或使用线程以减少性能阻碍事件的软件的技术。 本发明的至少一个实施例使用硬件和/或软件定时器或计数器来监视与执行用户级线程相关联的各种事件并将这些事件报告回用户级软件程序，其可以使用该信息来避免或至少 减少与用户级线程相关联的性能抑制事件。

公开(公告)号：US20130073835A1

公开(公告)日：2013-03-21

申请号：US13675910

申请日：2012-11-13

申请人： Quinn A. Jacobson ,  Hong Wang ,  John P. Shen ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Xiang Zou ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik

发明人： Quinn A. Jacobson ,  Hong Wang ,  John P. Shen ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Xiang Zou ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik

IPC分类号： G06F9/30

CPC分类号： G06F9/526 ,  G06F9/30087 ,  G06F9/30101 ,  G06F9/3834 ,  G06F9/3842 ,  G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/3861

摘要： A processor may include an address monitor table and an atomic update table to support speculative threading. The processor may also include one or more registers to maintain state associated with execution of speculative threads. The processor may support one or more of the following primitives: an instruction to write to a register of the state, an instruction to trigger the committing of buffered memory updates, an instruction to read the a status register of the state, and/or an instruction to clear one of the state bits associated with trap/exception/interrupt handling. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

摘要翻译： 处理器可以包括地址监视表和原子更新表以支持推测性线程。 处理器还可以包括一个或多个寄存器以维持与推测线程的执行相关联的状态。 处理器可以支持以下一个或多个原语：写入状态寄存器的指令，触发提交缓冲存储器更新的指令，读取状态状态寄存器的指令和/或 指令清除与陷阱/异常/中断处理相关联的状态位之一。 还描述和要求保护其他实施例。

公开(公告)号：US08762694B1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-24

申请号：US11395884

申请日：2006-03-31

申请人： Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang ,  Robert Knight ,  Robert Geva ,  Gautham Chinya ,  Scott Dion Rodgers ,  Chris Newburn ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Ittai Anati ,  Jim B. Crossland ,  John P. Shen

发明人： Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang ,  Robert Knight ,  Robert Geva ,  Gautham Chinya ,  Scott Dion Rodgers ,  Chris Newburn ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Per Hammarlund ,  Ittai Anati ,  Jim B. Crossland ,  John P. Shen

IPC分类号： G06F9/48

CPC分类号： G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/3009 ,  G06F9/4843 ,  G06F11/3409 ,  G06F11/348 ,  G06F2201/86 ,  G06F2201/88 ,  G06F2201/885

摘要： Method, apparatus, and system for a programmable event-driven yield mechanism. The mechanism may disrupt processing of a program to deliver a yield event. The event may be treated as a fault-like yield event or a trap-like event. For a fault-like yield event, the faulting instruction is canceled before retirement and processor state is not updated before the yield event is delivered. For a trap-like yield event the instruction causing the trap is retired and the yield event is delivered on an interrupt boundary. Multiple pending yield events may be handled according to priority. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

摘要翻译： 用于可编程事件驱动产出机制的方法，装置和系统。 该机制可能会中断处理程序以传递yield事件。 事件可能被视为类似故障的收益事件或类似陷阱的事件。 对于类似故障的产出事件，在退出之前取消故障指令，并且在发送收益事件之前未更新处理器状态。 对于类似陷阱的收益事件，导致陷阱的指令将被退出，并且收益事件在中断边界上传递。 可以根据优先级处理多个待处理的收益事件。 还描述和要求保护其他实施例。

公开(公告)号：US08171268B2

公开(公告)日：2012-05-01

申请号：US11230721

申请日：2005-09-19

申请人： Chris J. Newburn ,  Dion Rodgers ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang

发明人： Chris J. Newburn ,  Dion Rodgers ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang

IPC分类号： G06F9/30

CPC分类号： G06F9/461

摘要： A technique for managing context state information enables a reduced number of save and restore operations. At least one embodiment includes a plurality of save area segments to store a plurality of machine context state information, which can be saved into the segments and restored to the machine state. One embodiment includes at least one in-use bit vector to indicate status of the plurality of machine context information stored in the segments, and another vector associated with the machine state.

摘要翻译： 用于管理上下文状态信息的技术能够减少数量的保存和恢复操作。 至少一个实施例包括多个保存区域段以存储多个机器上下文状态信息，其可被保存到段中并恢复到机器状态。 一个实施例包括至少一个用于指示存储在段中的多个机器上下文信息的状态的使用位向量，以及与机器状态相关联的另一向量。

公开(公告)号：US20080133898A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-05

申请号：US11230721

申请日：2005-09-19

申请人： Chris J. Newburn ,  Dion Rodgers ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang

发明人： Chris J. Newburn ,  Dion Rodgers ,  Bryant E. Bigbee ,  Shivnandan D. Kaushik ,  Gautham N. Chinya ,  Xiang Zou ,  Hong Wang

IPC分类号： G06F9/30

CPC分类号： G06F9/461

摘要： A technique for managing context state information. At least one embodiment includes a plurality of save area segments to store a plurality of machine context state information. One embodiment includes at least one in-use bit vector to indicate status of the plurality of machine context information.

摘要翻译： 一种用于管理上下文状态信息的技术。 至少一个实施例包括多个保存区段以存储多个机器上下文状态信息。 一个实施例包括至少一个用于指示多个机器上下文信息的状态的使用中位向量。