Chad D Collie

US Patent:

20200301735, Sep 24, 2020

Filed:

Mar 18, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/356348

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Chad Collie - Springdale AR, US
Dirk Michel - Austin TX, US
Bret R. Olszewski - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/48

Abstract:

Examples of techniques for hardware thread switching for scheduling policy in a processor are described herein. An aspect includes, based on receiving a request from a first software thread to dispatch to a first hardware thread, determining that the first hardware thread is occupied by a second software thread that has a higher priority than the first software thread. Another aspect includes issuing an interrupt to switch the second software thread from the first hardware thread to a second hardware thread. Another aspect includes, based on switching of the second software thread from the first hardware thread to the second hardware thread, dispatching the first software thread to the first hardware thread.