Robert V Overman

US Patent:

20200401444, Dec 24, 2020

Filed:

Jun 24, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/450508

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
Brian PHARRIS - Cary NC, US
Jeff TUCKEY - Los Gatos CA, US
Robert OVERMAN - Apex NC, US
Stephen JONES - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/48
G06F 9/52

Abstract:

Techniques are disclosed for reducing the latency between the completion of a producer task and the launch of a consumer task dependent on the producer task. Such latency exists when the information needed to launch the consumer task is unavailable when the producer task completes. Thus, various techniques are disclosed, where a task management unit initiates the retrieval of the information needed to launch the consumer task from memory in parallel with the producer task being launched. Because the retrieval of such information is initiated in parallel with the launch of the producer task, the information is often available when the producer task completes, thus allowing for the consumer task to be launched without delay. The disclosed techniques, therefore, enable the latency between completing the producer task and launching the consumer task to be reduced.