SWITCH FOR STARRY TOPOLOGY

摘要

A switch for use in a star topology that monitors interprocessor communications activity and uses this information to improved system performance. The switch keeps track of idle processors in the system. When a new task is created for execution on an idle processor, it is sent to a switch which then directly routes it to the first available processor This eliminates overhead which otherwise is incurred if the task were first transmitted to a processor serving as a task dispatcher from where it would subsequently be sent to an idle application processor.