COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING A TASK HANDLING APPARATUS

摘要

The specification concerns a task handling apparatus for a computer system where the task dispatcher is selectively operable under instruction control for performing task queue selection and where the intertask communication mechanism can return a task dispatching element (TDE) to a non-prime task dispatching queue (TDQ) as well as to the prime TDQ. Whenever a TDE is returned to the prime TDQ, the task dispatcher makes a pre-emptive task switch. Also, if there are no task dispatching elements on the current non-prime TDQ, the task dispatcher switches to dispatch TDE's from the prime TDQ.