Patent ID: 8276145
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. At a computer system, the computer system including a physical processor and an operating system having a protected mode and a supervisor mode, wherein protected mode limits program access to physical processor resources of programs running in protected mode, supervisor mode having unlimited access to physical processor resources, one or more functions gating access to supervisor mode to permit a program in protected mode to transition to supervisor mode to access physical processor resources, wherein programs executed within the operating system can transition from protected mode to supervisor mode and from supervisor mode to protected mode depending on program instructions, supervisor mode having a default supervisor-mode execution object format that consumes physical processor resources on a time-shared basis in accordance with a default supervisor-mode scheduling policy, a method for configuring the scheduling of processor resources to occur in protected mode to decentralize scheduling responsibility from supervisor mode, the method comprising: an act of creating a protected-mode scheduling domain operating in the protected mode of the operating system, creating the protected-mode scheduling domain including: