Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory-fabric-based processor context switching system
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Application No.: US16402904Application Date: 2019-05-03
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Publication No.: US11003488B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: Shyamkumar T. Iyer , William Price Dawkins , Kurtis John Bowman , Jimmy Doyle Pike
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F13/12
- IPC: G06F13/12 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F15/173

Abstract:
A memory-fabric-based processor context switching system includes server devices coupled to a memory fabric. A first processing system in a first server device receives a request to move a process it is executing and, in response, copies first processing system context values to its first local memory system in the first server device, and generates a first data mover instruction that causes a first data mover device in the first server device to transmit the first processing system context values from the first local memory system to the memory fabric. A second processing system in a second server device generates a second data mover instruction that causes a second data mover device in the second server device to retrieve the first processing system context values from the memory fabric and provide the first processing system context values in a second local memory system included in the second server device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200348962A1 MEMORY-FABRIC-BASED PROCESSOR CONTEXT SWITCHING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-11-05
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