ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,490, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Sub-idle thread priority class" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations for scheduling a sub-idle thread priority class are described. An example method may include assigning, by a scheduler of a computer system, a sub-idle execution priority class to a processing thread associated with a request queue of an input/output (I/O) device; identifying, by a processing device, a work completion request in the request queue; and responsive to predicting, for a processor of the computer system, an idle time excee...