Multithreading (computer architecture): Difference between revisions

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===Research Topics===

For this type of multithreading, aA major area of research is the thread scheduler which must quickly choose among

the list of ready-to-run threads to execute next as well as maintain the read-to-run and stalled thread lists.

An important topic are the different thread priority schemes that can be used by the scheduler.

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Another area of research is what type of events should cause a thread switch - cache misses, inter-thread communication,

[[Direct memory access|DMA]] completion, etc.

===Block Multi-threading===