Controlled dynamic load balancing for a multiprocessor system
CA 1296432 C · Owner: Bishop, Thomas Patrick · Inventors: Bishop, Thomas Patrick; Peterson, James Stuart; Davis, Mark Henry
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Abstract, An apparatus for allowing a system administrator application, programmer, and/or program user to adjust the processor assignment function in a multiprocessor system. The system administrator controls the assignment function by defining certain system variables and flags. The application programmer can adjust the assignment function by causing allocation parameters to be passed in a system call before execution of the assignment function. To adjust the assignment function the program user executes a, system command that inserts similar allocation parameters into the program object code file stored in a file system on the multiprocessor system. The program executing the assignment …
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- Granted February 25, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 25, 2009.
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