Abstract: By employing a two-tier load balancing scheme, embodiments of the present invention may reduce the overhead of shared resource management, while increasing the potential aggregate throughput of a thread pool. As a result, the techniques presented herein may lead to increased performance in many computing environments, such as graphics intensive gaming.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, methods and apparatus are provided for tracking the status or state of a message spawned or sent from one processing element to another processing element in a multiple core processing element network. According to embodiments of the invention, a message status tracker may be incorporated within a multiple core processing element network. As a message is spawned or sent from an originating processing element to a receiving processing element, a counter within the message status tracker may be incremented. If the receiving processing element spawns further messages in response to the received message, the counter may be further incremented. When a receiving processing element finishes a process in response to a received message, the receiving processing element may decrement the counter. When the counter is decremented to an original value (e.g., zero) the original message may be considered complete.

Abstract: A method and circuit arrangement process a workload in a multithreaded processor that includes a plurality of hardware threads. Each thread receives at least one message carrying data to process the workload through a respective inbox from among a plurality of inboxes. A plurality of messages are received at a first inbox among the plurality of inboxes, wherein the first inbox is associated with a first thread among the plurality of hardware threads, and wherein each message is associated with a priority. From the plurality of received messages, a first message is selected to process in the first thread based on that first message being associated with the highest priority among the received messages. A second message is selected to process in the first thread based on that second message being associated with the earliest time stamp among the received messages and in response to processing the first message.

Abstract: A method and circuit arrangement process a workload in a multithreaded processor that includes a plurality of hardware threads. Each thread receives at least one message carrying data to process the workload through a respective inbox from among a plurality of inboxes. A plurality of messages are received at a first inbox among the plurality of inboxes, wherein the first inbox is associated with a first thread among the plurality of hardware threads, and wherein each message is associated with a priority. From the plurality of received messages, a first message is selected to process in the first thread based on that first message being associated with the highest priority among the received messages. A second message is selected to process in the first thread based on that second message being associated with the earliest time stamp among the received messages and in response to processing the first message.

Abstract: By employing a two-tier load balancing scheme, embodiments of the present invention may reduce the overhead of shared resource management, while increasing the potential aggregate throughput of a thread pool. As a result, the techniques presented herein may lead to increased performance in many computing environments, such as graphics intensive gaming.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, methods and apparatus are provided for tracking the status or state of a message spawned or sent from one processing element to another processing element in a multiple core processing element network. According to embodiments of the invention, a message status tracker may be incorporated within a multiple core processing element network. As a message is spawned or sent from an originating processing element to a receiving processing element, a counter within the message status tracker may be incremented. If the receiving processing element spawns further messages in response to the received message, the counter may be further incremented. When a receiving processing element finishes a process in response to a received message, the receiving processing element may decrement the counter. When the counter is decremented to an original value (e.g., zero) the original message may be considered complete.