Two-tiered dynamic load balancing using sets of distributed thread pools

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 comp...

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Hauptverfasser: KUPFERSCHMIDT MARK GARY, SHEARER ROBERT ALLEN, SCHARDT PAUL EMERY
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.