Patent ID: 8095932
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a first processing element; a second processing element; a storage area adapted to hold a first priority level associated with the first processing element and a second priority level associated with the second processing element; and reservation resources adapted to include a reservation station having a plurality of reservation entries, and wherein the first portion of reservation resources is to include a first number of reservation entries of the plurality of reservation entries and the second portion of reservation resources is to include a second number of reservation entries of the plurality of reservation entries, the first number of reservation entries and the second number of reservation entries to overlap to form a shared number of reservation entries; a first mask element associated with the first processing element to hold a plurality of first mask entries, wherein a first number of the plurality of first mask entries are to hold a first value to associate the first processing element with the first number of entries and a second number of the plurality of first mask entries are to hold a second value to de-associate the first processing element with the second number of reservation entries of the plurality of reservation entries; and a second mask element associated with the second processing element to hold a plurality of second mask entries, wherein a first number of the plurality of second mask entries are to hold the first value to associate the second processing element with the second number of entries and a secondnumber of the plurality of second mask entries are to hold the second value to de-associate the second processing element with the first number of reservation entries of the plurality of reservation entries.