Methods and apparatus for achieving thermal management using processing task scheduling

摘要

The present invention provides apparatus and methods to perform thermal management in a computing environment. In one embodiment, thermal attributes are associated with operations and/or processing components, and the operations are scheduled for processing by the components so that a thermal threshold is not exceeded. In another embodiment, hot and cool queues are provided for selected operations, and the processing components can select operations from the appropriate queue so that the thermal threshold is not exceeded.

主权项

1. A thermal scheduling method, comprising:
obtaining program code including a series of operations; determining thermal attributes associated with one or more of the operations; determining a thermal threshold for a component; estimating, with a processor, the thermal attributes by counting the number of tasks to be performed in each of the operations; and scheduling, with the processor, the operations for execution by the component in accordance with the thermal attributes so that the thermal threshold is not exceeded.