PROCESSOR SUPPORT FOR FILLING MEMORY REGIONS

Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing workloads between processors and/or processing elements. A computer system having at least first and second processing elements may cause a request to initialize one or more memory regions to be handled by the second processing element. Initializatio...

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Main Authors MORICHETTI LAURENT, CASPOLE ERIC R
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 09.02.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Techniques are disclosed relating to distributing workloads between processors and/or processing elements. A computer system having at least first and second processing elements may cause a request to initialize one or more memory regions to be handled by the second processing element. Initialization may be accomplished by the second processing element directly accessing a memory that includes the specified memory region to be initialized. Thus, while the second processing element is causing the memory region to be initialized, the first processing element is free to perform other computational tasks. A cache associated with the first processing element may be undisturbed as a result of the second processing element performing the initialization, which may avoid displacement of data from the cache.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20100849724