A storage medium according to various embodiments may store instructions. When the instructions are executed by a processor of a computer including an operating system which provides an activation state in which the instructions are executed in a foreground in relation to at least one application program, a suspended state in which the instructions are executed but do not perform a command in a background in relation thereto, and a background state in which the instructions are executed and perform a command in a background in relation thereto, the instructions may cause the computer to: in relation to an application program configured to perform a task, store information on the task in a memory of the computer; after a state of the application program is changed from an activation state to a suspended state, receive a push message from an outside of the computer; change the state of the application program from the suspended state to a background state, according to reception of the push message; and allow the application program to perform the task on the basis of the information on the task in the background state. Further, an electronic device according to various embodiments may be provided.

Closed loop performance controllers of asymmetric multiprocessor systems may be configured and operated to improve performance and power efficiency of such systems by adjusting control effort parameters that determine the dynamic voltage and frequency state of the processors and coprocessors of the system in response to the workload. One example of such an arrangement includes applying hysteresis to the control effort parameter and/or seeding the control effort parameter so that the processor or coprocessor receives a returning workload in a higher performance state. Another example of such an arrangement includes deadline driven control, in which the control effort parameter for one or more processing agents may be increased in response to deadlines not being met for a workload and/or decreased in response to deadlines being met too far in advance. The performance increase/decrease may be determined by comparison of various performance metrics for each of the processing agents.

A control system includes a management unit configured to control a power supply device toward a target value for an output performance value of the power supply device that supplies power to a predetermined device, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a post-shutdown task scheduled to be executed after a shutdown condition of the predetermined device is satisfied, in which the management unit refers to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and, when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, sets the target value to a second target value which is higher than a first target value set when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, before the shutdown condition is satisfied.

A first processing unit such as a graphics processing unit (GPU) pipelines that execute commands and a scheduler to schedule one or more first commands for execution by one or more of the pipelines. The one or more first commands are received from a user mode driver in a second processing unit such as a central processing unit (CPU). The scheduler schedules one or more second commands for execution in response to completing execution of the one or more first commands and without notifying the second processing unit. In some cases, the first processing unit includes a direct memory access (DMA) engine that writes blocks of information from the first processing unit to a memory. The one or more second commands program the DMA engine to write a block of information including results generated by executing the one or more first commands.

Techniques are disclosed for allocating resources of a computing device. An operating system executing at the computing device may receive a request for the computing device to execute a task associated with an application installed at the computing device and determine a resource cost associated with executing the task. In various examples, the operating system further determines, based on the application, an amount of resources available for executing the task and schedules the task to be executed at the computing device. Responsive to determining that the amount of resources available to execute the task is sufficient given the resource cost associated with the task, the computing device may execute the task based on the schedule.

Apparatuses, systems and methods for performing efficient power management for a processing unit. A processing unit includes two partitions, each assigned to a respective power domain with operating parameters, and each with a respective direct memory access

(DMA) engine. If a controller determines a task type of a received task indicates the task is to be processed by components of the second partition, then the controller assigns the task to the second partition and maintains the operational parameters of the first power domain for the components of the first partition or selects lower performance operational parameters of the first power domain. The processing unit accesses data stored in memory using a DMA engine and operational parameters of the second partition. Additionally, the second partition processes the task using the operational parameters of the second power domain.

An apparatus and a method for optimizing a satellite system considering a hard error stability and a soft error stability are disclosed. The satellite system optimizing method which considers a hard error stability and a soft error stability according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes acquiring hardware information of a processor which is loaded in the satellite system; acquiring workload information including a task which is performed by the processor; establishing a scheduling policy for the task based on the hardware information and the workload information; and quantifying a soft error stability and a hard error stability in accordance with the scheduling policy.

Modern Standby configurations can be applied on a per-application basis. When a system is transitioning into Modern Standby, a host service can select a Modern Standby configuration to be applied to each Modern Standby capable application. The host service can then create job objects, or other suitable structures or functionality, to cause the selected Modern Standby configurations to be applied to the Modern Standby capable applications while the system is in Modern Standby. In this way, even though the operating system may implement Modern Connected Standby for all Modern Standby capable applications, dynamically selected Modern Standby configurations can be applied to mimic Modern Disconnected Standby or suspension for at least some of the Modern Standby capable applications.

A method for off-loading tasks between a set of wireless earpieces in an embodiment of the present invention may have one or more of the following steps: (a) monitoring battery levels of the set of wireless earpieces, (b) determining the first wireless earpiece battery level and the second wireless battery level, (c) communicating the battery levels of each wireless earpiece to the other wireless earpiece of the set of wireless earpieces, (d) assigning a first task involving one or more of the following: computing tasks, background tasks, audio processing tasks, and sensor data analysis tasks from one of the set of wireless earpieces to the other wireless earpiece if the battery level of the one of the set of wireless earpieces falls below a critical threshold, (e) communicating data for use in performing a second task to the other wireless earpiece if the second task is communicated to the first wireless earpiece.

A processing device is provided. The processing device comprises an interface configured to receive information about an operation state of a surrogate processor. Further, the processing device comprises a processing circuitry configured to control the interface and to decide whether an interrupt addressed to the processing circuitry is processed by the processing circuitry or redirected to the surrogate processing circuitry based on an operation state of the processing circuitry and the surrogate processing circuitry.