Patent ID: 8219722
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of executing a multithreaded emulator, the method comprising: selecting a first emulation thread from a plurality of emulation threads on a host system to execute; determining that the first emulation thread is not executing an emulated direct memory access (DMA); determining that the first emulation thread has not stalled; determining that an execution time period for the first emulation thread has expired; suspending the first emulation thread based at least in part on: c) the determination that the execution time period for the first emulation thread has expired; selecting a second emulation thread from the plurality of emulation threads on the host system to execute; determining that the second emulation thread is executing an emulated DMA; determining that the second emulation thread has stalled; and suspending the second emulation thread based at least in part on: