Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Computer system interrupt handling
- Patent Title (中): 计算机系统中断处理
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Application No.: US13292721Application Date: 2011-11-09
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Publication No.: US08667201B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Benjamin Thomas Sander , Michael Houston , Newton Cheung , Keith Lowery
- Applicant: Benjamin Thomas Sander , Michael Houston , Newton Cheung , Keith Lowery
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G06F13/24
- IPC: G06F13/24

Abstract:
A system, method and article of manufacture for an accelerated processing device (APD) to request a central processing unit (CPU) to process a task, comprising enqueuing a plurality of tasks on a queue using the APD, generating a user-level interrupt and transmitting to the CPU the plurality of tasks in the queue using an interrupt handler associated with a CPU thread.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120179851A1 Computer System Interrupt Handling Public/Granted day:2012-07-12
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