公开(公告)号：US20170285717A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15087095

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： DEVADATTA V. BODAS ,  MURALIDHAR RAJAPPA ,  JUSTIN J. SONG ,  ANDY HOFFMAN

IPC: G06F1/32

CPC classification number: G06F1/324 ,  G06F1/3228 ,  Y02D10/126

Abstract: A system with improved power performance for task executed in parallel. A plurality of processing cores each to execute tasks. An inter-core messaging unit to conveys messages between the cores. A power management agent transitions a first core into a lower power state responsive to the first core waiting for a second core to complete a second task. In some embodiments long messages are subdivided to allow a receiving core to resume useful work sooner.