CN101661321B - Computer and method for controlling operation thereof - Google Patents

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CN101661321B
CN101661321B CN2008101184721A CN200810118472A CN101661321B CN 101661321 B CN101661321 B CN 101661321B CN 2008101184721 A CN2008101184721 A CN 2008101184721A CN 200810118472 A CN200810118472 A CN 200810118472A CN 101661321 B CN101661321 B CN 101661321B
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The invention provides a computer and a method for controlling operation thereof. The computer comprises a first processing system, a second processing system, a bus and a control module, wherein the first processing system has a first processing speed; the second processing system has a second processing speed which is lower than the first processing speed; the bus connects the first and second processing system; and the control module controls the first processing system to start to use the bus to process a current task to be processed and renders the second processing system in an idle state when the state of the computer meets a condition of starting the first processing system, and/or controls the second processing system to start to use the bus to process the current task to be processed and renders the first processing system in an idle state when the state of the computer meets a condition of starting the second processing system. According to the scheme, the operation of the second processing system with a low speed and low power consumption can be selected when the operation of the first processing system with a high rotating speed and high energy consumption is not needed, so the technical problem that the prior computer is incapable of radically overcoming energy resource waste is solved.

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The method of a kind of computing machine and control computer run
Technical field
The present invention relates to computer realm, particularly relate to the method for a kind of computing machine and control computer run.
Background technology
The development of personal computer (PC, Personal Computer) still be unable to do without the basic framework of INTEL, Microsoft at present, mainly is the WINTEL framework.Hardware comprises: CPU, chipset, hard disk, transfer bus.The performance of prior art network has had development at full speed, and operation is slow but the user still dislikes whole system.
In realizing process of the present invention, the inventor finds the PC of prior art, and there are the following problems at least:
A, because the framework of active computer is the single system operation, whether the task complexity of processing is all finished by this single system, causes this single system too complicated, and overload.
B, in the hard disk operation, system power dissipation is very large.This is battery-powered very unfavorable for portable equipments such as notebooks, a lot of effort is also arranged in the power consumption that reduces machine system, but generally speaking, also is not very desirable, can not satisfy user's needs, also not environmental protection.Be mainly manifested in unwanted the time, power consumption is too large, and when needing, machine system is too slow.Cause the chief reason of above-mentioned performance to be: computer-internal resource unreasonable distribution.For example, to download movies from network, only need network interface card part and hard disk some work just should satisfy the demands, but in the application of reality, inter nic part and hard disk part are outside work, the CPU of computing machine, chipset, internal memory, video card, display are also all in work, be that inter nic part and hard disk partly are assigned outside the resource, CPU, chipset, internal memory, video card, display also all are assigned resource, and distribute to CPU, chipset, internal memory, video card, display this part do not have what meaning, wasted a lot of energy.Prior art also has some technical schemes to attempt addressing these problems, and for example adopts some special-purpose download tools, or comes breakpoint transmission at the busy aperture time of network, but these schemes can't solve the problem that wastes energy at all.
Summary of the invention
Embodiments of the invention provide a kind of computing machine and control computer method, this computing machine has a kind of new architecture, comprise the first and second disposal systems that processing speed is different, solved that the individual system that the computer architecture of prior art can't solve at all is complicated, overload, and the technical matters of energy dissipation.
To achieve these goals, on the one hand, provide a kind of computing machine, comprising:
The first disposal system has the first processing speed;
The second disposal system has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed;
Bus is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system;
Control module, be used for the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in off position; And/or, the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in off position.
On the other hand, provide a kind of computing machine, wherein, comprising:
The first disposal system comprises: a CPU;
The second disposal system comprises: the 2nd CPU, and the processing speed of described the 2nd CPU is less than the processing speed of a described CPU;
Bus is used for realizing being connected between described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system;
The bus arbitration module, be used for controlling described first or of the second disposal system take described bus; When described disposal system took described bus, described disposal system was in initiate mode; When described disposal system did not take described bus, described disposal system was in off position.
Another aspect provides a kind of method of controlling computer run, and wherein, described computing machine comprises the first disposal system, has the first processing speed; The second disposal system has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed; Bus is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system; Described method comprises the steps:
The state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; And/or,
The state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in idle state.
A technical scheme in the technique scheme has following technique effect:
A kind of computing machine with new architecture is provided, this computing machine comprises the first disposal system and the second disposal system with different disposal speed, the first disposal system is connected by bus with the second disposal system, the processing speed of the first disposal system is greater than the processing speed of the second disposal system, utilize the architectural framework of this computing machine, can satisfy by the state of judging current computer predetermined, the condition that need enable the first disposal system is still predetermined, need enable the condition of the second disposal system, control current startup and what take bus is the first disposal system or second system, particularly, for example, can be according to the size of the data processing amount of current Processing tasks, what of battery dump energy, or the quality of computer to dissipate heat situation selects suitable disposal system to carry out the task processing, like this when processing does not need the task of high processing rate, can select the second disposal system of reduction process speed to process, avoid so the unnecessary wasting of resources and unnecessary power consumption, fundamentally solved the energy dissipation problem that the active computer framework can't fundamentally solve.And further, because the second disposal system is relatively stable, good reliability can also be utilized this framework, and the first disposal system is carried out maintenance work etc.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of embodiment of the invention computing machine;
Fig. 2 is a kind of specific implementation of embodiment of the invention computing machine;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of another embodiment of the present invention computing machine;
Fig. 4 is the another kind of specific implementation of another embodiment of the present invention computing machine;
Fig. 5 is the schematic flow sheet of the method for embodiment of the invention control computer run.
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For technical matters, technical scheme and advantage that the embodiment of the invention will be solved is clearer, be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and the specific embodiments.
Fig. 1 is the computer organization schematic diagram of the embodiment of the invention.Such as Fig. 1, the computing machine 100 of the embodiment of the invention comprises:
The first disposal system 101 has the first processing speed; The second disposal system 102 has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed; Bus 103 is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system; Control module 104, be used for the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in off position; And/or, the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in off position.
In the specific implementation, control module can make computing machine control first the first disposal system acquiescently when starting or the second disposal system starts to take bus, if start first the first disposal system, whether the state of then judging again current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and when satisfying the condition that starts the second disposal system, switch to the second disposal system; If start first the second disposal system, judge again that then whether the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and satisfying when enabling the condition of the first disposal system, switch to the first disposal system.Also can, when computer starting, namely whether satisfy condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and when satisfying, start the first disposal system; When not satisfying, directly start the second disposal system, or whether satisfy again condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and when satisfying, start the second disposal system.All right, when computer starting, namely whether satisfy condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and when satisfying, control the startup of the second disposal system and take bus; When not satisfying, directly control the startup of the first disposal system and take bus, or whether satisfy again condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and when satisfying, control the startup of the first disposal system and take bus.
Example ground, above-mentioned off position comprises: closed condition, suspended state or dormant state etc.
Preferably, the power consumption of the first disposal system is greater than the second disposal system.Like this, when the second disposal system of control reduction process speed starts to take the bus Processing tasks, the also corresponding minimizing of power consumption that computing machine consumes, thereupon to the pressure of heat radiation, and the flying power of battery is all benefited when using battery.
Preferably, above-mentioned condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system comprises one or more in the following condition:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine surpasses predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery reached the first predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat reaches predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the first disposal system; Exemplarily, the user can preset the first disposal system that some task such as concrete application need be adopted high processing rate, for example, can arrange when playing a certain class game, when playing such as 3D, enables the first disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the first disposal system of user's input.
Preferably, above-mentioned condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system comprises one or more in the following condition:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine is no more than predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery was lower than the second predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat does not reach predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the second disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the second disposal system of user's input.
Preferably, above-mentioned the first electric weight thresholding is more than or equal to the second electric weight thresholding.
Preferably, the first disposal system 101 comprises: a CPU, first chipset corresponding with a described CPU, and the first IO interface of being connected with a described CPU; The second disposal system 105 comprises: the 2nd CPU, second chipset corresponding with described the 2nd CPU, and the second IO interface of being connected with described the 2nd CPU.The processing speed of the 2nd CPU and the second chipset is less than the processing speed of a CPU and the first chipset, little speed and the power consumption of stating the first IO interface of the speed of the second IO interface and power consumption; Bus is used for realizing being connected between described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system.Exemplarily, a CPU is high-speed CPU, and the first IO interface is the high speed IO interface; The 2nd CPU is low speed CPU, and the second IO interface is the low speed IO interface; The arithmetic speed of the one CPU is higher than the arithmetic speed of the 2nd CPU.
Preferably, in the computing machine of this embodiment, control module comprises: the bus arbitration module, be used for controlling described first or of the second disposal system take described bus, described idle disposal system does not take described bus.Exemplarily, of arbitrating in described the first disposal system or the second disposal system according to default resolving strategy of bus arbitration module takies described bus.In fact as long as bus is taken by the CPU of which disposal system, the resource of computer system is just all taken by this CPU so.The mode of relevant bus arbitration can be seen existing disclosed bus arbitration mechanism, and described bus arbitration strategy refers to the control that the highest equipment of right of priority always can obtain bus, and the equipment that right of priority is lower then must be waited for.In one embodiment of the invention, high performance CPU is that high-speed CPU has higher bus control right, therefore when need enable high performance the first disposal system, when the equipment insertion was arranged when the first IO interface, the bus of computing machine total system and resource all returned high-performance CPU to control.
Among this embodiment, the first disposal system is the system that processing speed is fast, run up, need high power consumption, and principal feature is that performance is high, speed is fast, capacity is large, energy consumption is high; The second disposal system is that processing speed is slow, the system of low-speed running, low-power consumption.Exemplarily, the first IO interface of the first disposal system mainly can comprise: high performance video card or Graphics Processing Unit; The second IO interface of the second disposal system mainly comprises: the IO interface of some peripherals, such as network interface, at a slow speed memory device, low speed voice communication part and/or small-sized display interface etc.; According to actual needs, can have IO interface one or more of above-mentioned peripherals, have when a plurality of, these peripheral IO interface can be the relations that walks abreast, and are connected with the second chipset respectively.The second disposal system can keep for a long time operation because energy consumption is low; And the first disposal system, can be only when needs be arranged, operation work.Fig. 2 is a kind of specific implementation of embodiment of the invention computing machine.In this specific implementation, be connected by bus between the first disposal system and the second disposal system.Exemplarily, the computing machine of the embodiment of the invention is when carrying out the network download, because network interface belongs to the first IO interface, in the time need not processing other task, can enable the second disposal system and make the first disposal system be in idle state, as close the first disposal system, from bus suspension the first disposal system or make the first disposal system be in dormant state, like this, when downloading, just need not to allow a CPU, the first chipset, video card is all worked, namely need not system resource allocation to a CPU, the first chipset, video card etc., thereby avoided unnecessary system resource waste, reduced power consumption, reasonable distribution system resource, and since speed of download accelerate so that the shortest time that waits for downloads.Exemplarily, in the computing machine of the embodiment of the invention, can be provided with the public IO interface that the first disposal system and the second disposal system all can be called, such as input equipment interface, USB interface etc. such as keyboard, mouses.
Preferably, as an example of embodiment of the invention computing machine, described control module also comprises one or more as in the lower module:
The first handover module, for starting in the first disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the second disposal system, if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the second disposal system, and make described the first disposal system be in idle state;
The second handover module, for starting in the first disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the second disposal system, if described the first disposal system is placed idle state by force, then control described the second disposal system startup and take described bus; Exemplarily, this first disposal system can be to be operated system or the user closes, hangs up or place dormant state by force;
The 3rd handover module, for starting in the second disposal system and taking in bus, the idle situation of the first disposal system, if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state;
The 4th handover module, for starting in the second disposal system and taking in bus, the idle situation of the first disposal system, if the occupied duration length that reaches predetermined percentage of system resource reaches default time span, then current startup and the disposal system that takies bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; Exemplarily, above-mentioned predetermined percentage can be 90%, namely be in the second disposal system of low performance such as current system, and the current system resource is occupied more than 90%, and the occupied duration reaches default time span, and then the disposal system with current operation switches to high performance the first disposal system; Like this, can be when system's work-load be larger, the speed of coming the raising task to finish by switching to the first disposal system.
Preferably, as an example of above-described embodiment computing machine, described computing machine, the disposal system of acquiescence operation when described the second disposal system is start.Exemplarily, in computer run generally speaking, can all use the second disposal system of low performance, realize corresponding task such as corresponding application by the second disposal system, and only need in the high performance situation finishing the work, just disposal system is switched to the first disposal system of high-performance, high power consumption.
In operating system, can also and finish the corresponding data processing amount of these required by task according to the task amount of current Processing tasks, and in conjunction with default Energy Saving Strategy, decide and adopt the first disposal system or the second disposal system, perhaps whether need to switch to the first disposal system from the second disposal system, perhaps whether need to switch to the second disposal system from the first disposal system.
Further, the computing machine of the embodiment of the invention is owing to having two different systems of processing speed, can enable as required one of them system and carry out work, having overcome like this active computer only depends on individual system to process system complex and OL defective that all tasks cause, and when when processing some task, only enabling the disposal system of reduction process speed, low-power consumption, but energy savings is avoided energy dissipation.And further, because the second disposal system is relatively stable, reliability will be got well, and can also utilize this framework, and the first disposal system is carried out maintenance work etc.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the computing machine of another embodiment of the present invention.Such as Fig. 3, the computing machine 300 of this embodiment comprises: the first disposal system 301 comprises: a CPU 302; The second disposal system 303 comprises: the 2nd CPU 304, and the processing speed of described the 2nd CPU is less than the processing speed of a described CPU; Bus 305 is used for realizing being connected between described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system; Bus arbitration module 306, be used for controlling described first or of the second disposal system take described bus; When described disposal system took described bus, described disposal system was in initiate mode; When described disposal system did not take described bus, described disposal system was in off position.
Preferably, in the example of the computing machine of this embodiment, also comprise: public IO interface, by described bus respectively with described the first disposal system be connected disposal system and be connected, be used for when described the first disposal system takies bus, being called by described the first disposal system; When described the second disposal system takies bus, called by described the second disposal system.
Fig. 4 is the another kind of specific implementation of another embodiment of the present invention computing machine.Such as Fig. 4, in this specific implementation, two disposal systems are connected by PCI (peripheral component interconnect, peripherals is interconnected) bus, are two systems that realize in pci bus.Wherein, the first disposal system comprises: a CPU is CPU1, internal memory 1 (MEM1, Memory 1), the Memory Controller Hub 1 that is connected with CPU1 and internal memory 1 (MCH1, Memory Control Hub1), graphics processing unit GPU, and high speed IO interface (IO); The second disposal system comprises: the 2nd CPU is CPU2, display interface, internal memory 2 (MEM2, Memory 2), the Memory Controller Hub 2 that is connected with CPU2 and internal memory 2 (MCH2, Memory Control Hub2).Wherein pci bus has arbitration function, and the MCH1 of the first disposal system compares the right of priority with higher level with the MCH2 of the second disposal system.When MCH1 occupied pci bus, MCH2 withdrawed from automatically; When MCH1 withdrawed from control to pci bus, MCH2 can enter; And during MCH2 occupied, MCH1 had the right to insert, and stopped MCH2 to the control of pci bus.Among Fig. 4, Input/Output Control Center (ICH, Input output control hub) following part is the common sparing of two systems, it is public IO interface part, comprise and connecting by ICH: network interface, storer, USB interface, education and correction for juvenile offenders pin interface controller (LPC, Low Pin Count), the input equipments such as keyboard and mouse that connect by LPC, firmware control center (FWH, Firmware hub) etc.The public part of two systems is two parts that system can call, and no matter current namely what enable is the first disposal system or the second disposal system, and equal parts of the above-mentioned public part of adjustable usefulness are such as mouse, keyboard, network interface etc.Wherein, LPC is based on the 33MHz 4bit parallel bus agreement of Intel standard, the isa bus agreement before replacing, and both performances are similar.Certainly, the parts of the public part of above-mentioned two systems can have multiple variation for exemplarily in specific implementation.
In addition, except pci bus, also can adopt the bus structure of other types in the computer system of the embodiment of the invention, such as PCIE bus, CAN bus, fieldbus etc.
On the other hand, also provide a kind of method of controlling computer run.Fig. 5 is the schematic flow sheet of method of the control computer run of the embodiment of the invention.Wherein, the computing machine of the method control comprises: the first disposal system has the first processing speed; The second disposal system has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed; Bus is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system.Such as Fig. 5, the method for this embodiment comprises the steps:
Step 501, the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; And/or, the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in idle state.
In the specific implementation, can make computing machine when starting, start first the first disposal system acquiescently or the second disposal system takies bus, if start first the first disposal system, whether the state of then judging again current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and satisfying when enabling the condition of the second disposal system, switch to the second disposal system; If start first the second disposal system, judge again that then whether the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and satisfying when enabling the condition of the first disposal system, switch to the first disposal system.Also can, when computer starting, namely whether satisfy condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and when satisfying, start the first disposal system; When not satisfying, directly control the startup of the second disposal system and take bus, or whether satisfy again condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and when satisfying, control the startup of the second disposal system and take bus.All right, when computer starting, namely whether satisfy condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the second disposal system, and when satisfying, control the startup of the second disposal system and take bus; When not satisfying, directly control the first disposal system and take bus, or whether satisfy again condition judgment predetermined, that need enable the first disposal system, and when satisfying, control the startup of the first disposal system and take bus.
Preferably, in the method for this embodiment, the power consumption of the first disposal system is greater than the power consumption of the second disposal system.
Preferably, when the state of described computing machine satisfies one or more in the following condition, control described the first disposal system and start and take bus:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine surpasses predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery reached the first predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat reaches predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the first disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the first disposal system of user's input.
Preferably, when the state of computing machine satisfies one or more in the following condition, control described the second disposal system and start and take bus:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine is no more than predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery was lower than the second predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat does not reach predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the second disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the second disposal system of user's input.
Preferably, above-mentioned the first electric weight thresholding is more than or equal to the second electric weight thresholding.
Preferably, in the method for this embodiment, after described the first disposal system of control starts and takies bus, also comprise: if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies bus are switched to described the second disposal system, and make described the first disposal system be in off position; And/or, if described the first disposal system is placed idle state by force, as being closed by force, place dormant state or hanging up as from bus suspension, then control described the second disposal system startup and take bus.
Preferably, in the method for this embodiment, after described the second disposal system of control starts and takies bus, also comprise: if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; And/or, if the occupied duration length that reaches predetermined percentage of system resource reaches default time span, then current startup and the disposal system that takies bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that, realize that all or part of step in the method for the above-mentioned fact is to come the relevant hardware of instruction finish by program, described program can be stored in the storage medium that a computing machine can read, this program is when carrying out, comprise the steps: the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; The state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in idle state.Described storage medium is such as ROM/RAM, disk, CD etc.
The above is preferred implementation of the present invention; should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, under the prerequisite that does not break away from the described principle of the embodiment of the invention; can also make some improvements and modifications, these improvements and modifications also should be considered as protection scope of the present invention.

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1. a computing machine is characterized in that, comprising:
The first disposal system has the first processing speed;
The second disposal system has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed;
Bus is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system;
Input/Output Control Center;
The common sparing of described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system, described common sparing is connected with described bus by described Input/Output Control Center;
Control module, be used for the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take described bus and process current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in off position to enjoy described common sparing; And/or, the state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in off position to enjoy described common sparing;
Described control module comprises:
The bus arbitration module, one that is used for controlling described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system takies described bus, and idle disposal system does not take described bus.
2. computing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the power consumption of described the first disposal system is greater than the power consumption of described the second disposal system.
3. computing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system comprises one or more in the following condition:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine surpasses predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery reached the first predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat reaches predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the first disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the first disposal system of user's input.
4. computing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system comprises one or more in the following condition:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine is no more than predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery was lower than the second predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat does not reach predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the second disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the second disposal system of user's input.
5. computing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,
Described the first disposal system comprises: a CPU, the first chipset and the first IO interface; Described the second disposal system comprises: the 2nd CPU, the second chipset and the second IO interface;
The processing speed of described the 2nd CPU and the second chipset is less than the processing speed of a described CPU and the first chipset, and the speed of described the second IO interface and power consumption are less than speed and the power consumption of described the first IO interface.
6. computing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that,
Described the first disposal system comprises: a CPU, and the first internal memory is with the first Memory Controller Hub that a described CPU and described the first internal memory are connected, graphics processing unit, high speed IO interface; Described the second disposal system comprises: the 2nd CPU, display interface, the second internal memory, the second Memory Controller Hub that is connected with described the 2nd CPU and described the second internal memory;
Described the first Memory Controller Hub compares the right of priority with higher level with described the second Memory Controller Hub.
7. computing machine according to claim 6 is characterized in that, described bus arbitration module also is used for carrying out following control:
When described the first Memory Controller Hub occupied bus, described the second Memory Controller Hub withdrawed from automatically; When described the first Memory Controller Hub withdrawed from control to bus, described the second Memory Controller Hub can enter; During described the second Memory Controller Hub occupied bus, described the first Memory Controller Hub had the right to insert, and stops described the second Memory Controller Hub to the control of bus.
8. computing machine according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described the first IO interface comprises: video card.
9. computing machine according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described the first IO interface comprises: Graphics Processing Unit.
10. computing machine according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described the second IO interface comprises: network interface, at a slow speed memory device, low speed voice communication part and/or small-sized display interface.
11. each described computing machine is characterized in that according to claim 1-4, described control module also comprises:
The first handover module, for starting in the first disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the second disposal system, if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the second disposal system, and make described the first disposal system be in idle state;
The second handover module, for starting in the first disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the second disposal system, if described the first disposal system is placed idle state by force, then control described the second disposal system startup and take described bus;
The 3rd handover module, for starting in the second disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the first disposal system, if the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state; And/or,
The 4th handover module, for starting in the second disposal system and taking in described bus, the idle situation of the first disposal system, if the occupied duration length that reaches predetermined percentage of system resource reaches default time span, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in idle state.
12. a computing machine is characterized in that, comprising:
The first disposal system comprises: a CPU;
The second disposal system comprises: the 2nd CPU, and the processing speed of described the 2nd CPU is less than the processing speed of a described CPU;
Bus is used for realizing being connected between described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system;
Input/Output Control Center;
The common sparing of described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system, described common sparing is connected with described bus by described Input/Output Control Center;
The bus arbitration module, be used for controlling described first or of the second disposal system take described bus and process current Processing tasks to enjoy described common sparing; When described the first disposal system took described bus, described the first disposal system was in initiate mode; When described the first disposal system did not take described bus, described the first disposal system was in off position; When described the second disposal system took described bus, described the second disposal system was in initiate mode; When described the second disposal system did not take described bus, described the second disposal system was in off position.
13. computing machine according to claim 12 is characterized in that, also comprises:
Public IO interface, by described bus respectively with described the first disposal system be connected disposal system and be connected, be used for when described the first disposal system takies bus, being called by described the first disposal system; When described the second disposal system takies bus, called by described the second disposal system.
14. a method of controlling computer run is characterized in that, described computing machine comprises: the first disposal system has the first processing speed; The second disposal system has the second processing speed, and described the second processing speed is less than described the first processing speed; Bus is used for realizing described the first disposal system and is connected the connection of the second disposal system; Input/Output Control Center; The common sparing of described the first disposal system and described the second disposal system, described common sparing is connected with described bus by described Input/Output Control Center; Described method comprises the steps:
The state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the first disposal system, control described the first disposal system and start to take described bus and process current Processing tasks and make described the second disposal system be in idle state to enjoy described common sparing; And/or,
The state of judging current computer satisfy predetermined, in the time of need enabling the condition of described the second disposal system, control described the second disposal system and start to take described bus and process described current Processing tasks and make described the first disposal system be in idle state to enjoy described common sparing.
15. method according to claim 14 is characterized in that, when the state of described computing machine satisfies one or more in the following condition, controls described the first disposal system and starts and take described bus:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine surpasses predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery reached the first predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat reaches predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the first disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the first disposal system of user's input.
16. method according to claim 14 is characterized in that, when the state of described computing machine satisfies one or more in the following condition, controls described the second disposal system and starts and take described bus:
The data processing amount of the current Processing tasks of computing machine is no more than predetermined data processing amount thresholding;
When computing machine provided the energy by battery, the dump energy of battery was lower than the second predetermined electric weight thresholding;
Computer to dissipate heat does not reach predetermined heat radiation level;
The task that computing machine is worked as pre-treatment belongs to the task that predetermined need are enabled described the second disposal system;
Receive the instruction that is used for forcing to enable described the second disposal system of user's input.
17. each described method is characterized in that according to claim 14-16, after described the first disposal system of control starts and takies system bus, also comprises:
If the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the second disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the second disposal system, and make described the first disposal system be in off position; And/or,
If described the first disposal system is placed idle state by force, then control described the second disposal system startup and take described bus.
18. each described method is characterized in that according to claim 14-16, after described the second disposal system starts and takies described bus, also comprises:
If the state of current computer satisfies condition predetermined, that need enable described the first disposal system, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in off position; And/or,
If the occupied duration length that reaches predetermined percentage of system resource reaches default time span, then current startup and the disposal system that takies described bus are switched to described the first disposal system, and make described the second disposal system be in off position.
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