TRANSPARENT SUPPORT FOR OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES

Operating system services are transparently triggered for thread execution resources ("sequencers") that are sequestered from view of the operating system. A "surrogate" thread that is managed by, and visible to, the operating system is utilized to acquire OS services on behalf o...

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Main Authors HANKINS, RICHARD, CHINYA, GAUTHAM, WANG, HONG, SETHI, PRASHANT, KAUSHIK, SHIV, PATEL, BAIJU, BIGBEE, BRYANT, SHEN, JOHN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 23.01.2008
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Operating system services are transparently triggered for thread execution resources ("sequencers") that are sequestered from view of the operating system. A "surrogate" thread that is managed by, and visible to, the operating system is utilized to acquire OS services on behalf of a sequestered sequencer. Multi-shred contention for shred-specific resources may thus be alleviated. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20060752542