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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLuke Matthew Browning, Jeffrey Scott Peek
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A method and system for establishing a priority order of threads executed within a multiprocessor data processing system are disclosed. The priority order of threads is maintained on a global queue within the data processing system and the queue is ordered by selecting a most favored runnable thread from among either a current thread, a favored thread, or an affinity thread. Once the thread is chosen, be it the current thread, the most favored thread, or the affinity thread, the chosen thread is removed from a run queue and then is run on the data processing system on a selected processor. An affinity thread pointer is updated to the thread being run to select the next affinity thread or the thread having the greatest affinity.
A method with a multiprocessor data processing system including a plurality of processors, and a single execution queue of multiple threads from which threads are dispatched for execution by any said plurality of processors in a priority order, for establishing said priority order, said method comprising:
A multiprocessor data processing system including a plurality of processors, and a single execution queue of multiple threads from which threads are dispatched for execution by any said plurality of processors in a priority order, for establishing said priority order, said system comprising:
A computer program product for use within a multiprocessor data processing system including a plurality of processors, and a single execution queue of multiple threads from which threads are dispatched for execution by any of said plurality of processors in a priority order, for establishing said priority order, said computer program product comprising:
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