Task scheduling in big and little cores

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8984200
APP PUB NO 20140059262A1
SERIAL NO

13590484

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One aspect provides a method comprising: ascertaining an interrupt at an information handling device having two or more cores of different size; determining if the interrupt should be directed to one of a bigger core and a littler core based on a policy for scheduling interrupts; directing the interrupt to the little core if the interrupt does not qualify as an exception based on the policy for scheduling interrupts; and processing the interrupt on an appropriate core according the policy for scheduling interrupts. Other aspects are described and claimed.

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LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBHC/O BRIGHT LAW AG BUNDESPLATZ 9 ZUG 6300

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cromer, Daryl C Cary, US 89 1936
Davis, Mark C Durham, US 46 701
Kelso, Scott E Cary, US 23 246
Locker, Howard J Cary, US 105 2689

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