Information processing device and information processing method

• US 20060069897A1
• Filed: 09/27/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchino, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/235,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20060069897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An information processing device having a plurality of processors, for carrying out processing on a data stream according to an aspect of the present invention includes a manager which reads a configuration file showing relations among a plurality of modules of processes to be executed on the data stream, allocates the plurality of modules to at least one of the plurality processors according to processing capacities of the respective processors, sets buffer information on the basis of information concerning the allocation of the plurality of modules, loads the modules and the buffer information, in the respective processors, and executes the loaded modules in the respective processors at a predetermined timing by use of the buffer information.

Claims

1. A manager for an information processing system having a plurality of processors, for carrying out processing on a data stream, wherein the manager:

reads a configuration file showing relations among a plurality of modules of processes to be executed on the data stream, and allocates the plurality of modules to at least one of the plurality of processors according to processing capacities of the respective processors;

sets buffer information on the basis of information concerning the allocation of the plurality of modules to the processors;

loads the modules and the buffer information in the respective processors; and

causes the loaded modules to be executed in the respective processors at a predetermined timing by use of the buffer information.

2. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when all the processes on the data stream are not processed in a real time manner, the manager allots modules to additional processors, and processes the modules in separate processors.

3. An information processing device according to claim 2, wherein, when a first module is executed on a first processor and a second module is executed on a second processor, the second processor executes the second module the cycle after the first processor executes the first module.

4. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the configuration file includes a list of plural modules, and a list of connection relations among the modules.

5. An information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the list of modules has meta information which enables estimation of a processing time for each module based on processing capacities of the processors.

6. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the buffer information is set according to the time from the moment when information can first be written into a buffer memory to the moment when the information can no longer be read therefrom.

7. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the manager, upon reading the configuration file, creates a data dependency graph among modules, and allocates modules having no data dependency sequentially to allocatable processors on the basis of the data dependency graph.

8. An information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the processing capacities of the processors are variable, and

when loads of the information processing device fluctuate during execution of modules by the processors, the modules are reallocated to the processors according to processing capacities of the processors, and thereby application configurations are switched dynamically.

9. An information processing device according to claim 8, wherein operating frequencies of the processors are switchable, and the operating frequencies of the processors are switched according to loads of the information processing device.

10. An information processing method which is applied to an information processing device having a plurality of processors, the information processing device carrying out processing on a data stream, the method comprising:

reading a configuration file showing the relations among a plurality of modules of processes to be executed on the data stream, and allocating the plurality of modules to at least one of the plurality of processors according to processing capacities of the respective processors;

setting buffer information on the basis of information concerning the allocation of the plurality of modules to the processors;

loading the modules and the set buffer information to the respective processors; and

executing the loaded modules in the respective processors at a predetermined timing by use of the loaded buffer information.

11. An information processing method according to claim 10, wherein

the processing capacities of the processors are changeable, and the method further comprises:

when loads of the information processing device fluctuate during execution of modules by the processors, reallocating the modules to processors according to processing capacities of the processors.