| 摘要 |
In a loosely coupled multiprocessor environment wherein a plurality of processors (2) are attached to a shared intelligent memory (1), a distributed scheduling mechanism for the fast scheduling of source (4) respectively server processes (5) to be executed by said processors (2) upon their attachment to a data message queue (3) contained in said shared intelligent memory (1), said processes (4,5) using data messages enqueued into, respectively dequeued from said memory (1). According to this scheduling mechanism, an independant scheduler (6) is dedicated to all the processes of a process group, and all the schedulers monitor the status of said data message queue, and upon receipt of an empty-to-non-empty E-NE signal, the least busy scheduler dequeues shared data from the queue, so that it can be processed by its associated process, without however,loosing fault-tolerance in case of a particular processor failing.
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