Method and system for reducing context switch times
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Oct 13, 2009
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May 11, 2006
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Oct 28, 2004
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Oct 28, 2004
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An apparatus for managing resource in a multithreaded system, and attempting to increase the speed in which task switching occurs by controlling when thread state is stored to memory. The apparatus includes a thread dispatcher circuit capable of determining, based upon an estimated state retirement rate associated with the worker threads and a rate of saving state of the worker threads, if the worker threads should be halted and saved the state of the worker threads.
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