Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for performing load balancing of work queues via a dispatcher that shifts work items between worker threads. The dispatcher can be added to the kernel and can monitor work item workload histories to estimate the workload that each work item will add to a thread that it is scheduled for. Where a workload for a given processor is predicted to trigger performance scaling of that processor, the dispatcher can reschedule one or more work items from the scheduled or default work thread to another work thread. The another work thread can be selected such that the addition of the work item will not trigger performance scaling of the another work thread.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for performing load balancing of work queues via a dispatcher that shifts work items between worker threads. The dispatcher can be added to the kernel and can monitor work item workload histories to estimate the workload that each work item will add to a thread that it is scheduled for. Where a workload for a given processor is predicted to trigger performance scaling of that processor, the dispatcher can reschedule one or more work items from the scheduled or default work thread to another work thread. The another work thread can be selected such that the addition of the work item will not trigger performance scaling of the another work thread.

Abstract: Methods and systems for data path aware thermal management in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. A trigger event may be received at a thermal module in the PCD. The thermal module also receives thermal information about a plurality of processing components of the PCD in response to the trigger event, the thermal information including a temperature at the locations of the plurality of processing components. The thermal module also receives thermal information about at least one subsystem in response to the trigger event, the thermal information including temperature modeling information about the at least one subsystem and a second temperature at the location of the at least one subsystem. A thermal impact from the plurality of processing components executing a task over a period of time is predicted and a determination is made which processing component has the smallest amount of thermal impact from executing the task.