Abstract: The present disclosure relates to multi-core processors. One example multi-core processor includes a job manager and multiple processing cores coupled to the job manager. The job manager stores multiple job chains and dependency relationships between the multiple job chains. The job manager determines a first job chain and a second job chain in the multiple job chains based on the dependency relationships between the multiple job chains, where a dependency relationship between the first job chain and the second job chain is non-dependency. The job manager schedules a part or all of the multiple processing cores to execute one or more first tasks, and schedules at least one second task in the second job chain to at least one first processing core for execution when the at least one first processing core in the multiple processing cores is in an idle state.