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Thread transition management

  • US 10,296,339 B2
  • Filed: 08/11/2018
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product for thread transition management, the computer program product comprising:

  • a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to;

    cause a processor to access two data register sets coupled to a computer memory, the two data register sets usable by the processor as first-level registers for thread execution;

    determine whether a quantity of the first-level registers needed to execute one or more threads exceeds a quantity of the first-level registers of the two data register sets; and

    responsive to determining that the quantity of the first-level registers needed to execute the one or more threads exceeds the quantity of the first-level registers of the two data register sets, assign a portion of main memory or cache memory as second-level registers, the second-level registers serving as registers of at least one of the two data register sets for executing the one or more threads.

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