MECHANISM FOR FAST EVALUATION OF POLICIES IN WORK ASSIGNMENT

摘要

A work item routing mechanism is provided that is capable of employing a state map which compresses routing decisions and results of comparisons into a single bit. Thus, comparisons and determinations made in connection with work item routing are made prior to the routing mechanism receiving a work item. Once a work item is received, the routing mechanism only has to refer to the bit map to see if it is allowed to route the work item to a particular processing resource and if that resource is the best among all candidate processing resources. All of the work item routing decisions can, therefore, be made very quickly thereby reducing processing delay and wait time.