Policies for Shader Resource Allocation in a Shader Core

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• an accelerated processing device (APD) including compute pipelines coupled to the memory, wherein the compute pipelines are configured to, based on an instruction stored in memory,
• select a first queue and a second queue from compute pipeline processing queues within each of the compute pipelines in accordance with predetermined criteria;
• select one of the first and second queues for processing in accordance with priority criteria;
• and
• process the selected queue until at least one from the group including (i) lapse of a time quanta and (ii) a queue having a higher priority becomes available.