PRIORITY BASED CONTEXT PREEMPTION

• Main Authors: NALLURI HEMA CHAND, NAVALE ADITYA, VEMBU BALAJI, RAMADOSS MURALI, BOLES JEFFERY S, DOYLE PETER L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 07.10.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A methods and an apparatus may prioritize the processing of high priority and low priority contexts submitted to a processing unit through separate high priority and low priority context submission ports. According to one embodiment, submission of a context to the low priority port causes contexts i...