摘要 |
A method and apparatus for offloading processing tasks from a first computing environment to a second computing environment, such as from a first interpreter emulation environment to a second native operating system within which the interpreter is running. The offloading method uses memory queues in the first computing environment that are accessible by the first computing environment and one or more offload engines residing in the second computing environment. Using the queues, the first computing environment can allocate and queue a control block for access by a corresponding offload engine. Once the offload engine dequeues the control block and performs the processing task in the control block, the control block is returned for interrogation into the success or failure of the requested processing task. The offload engine is a separate process in a separate computing environment, and does not execute as part of any portion of the first computing environment. |