A method for the treatment of interrupt requests in a processor

The invention relates to a method for the treatment of interrupt requests in a processor that is suitable for parallel execution of at least two threads, one instruction pipeline is provided for each of the at least two threads. One of the at least two threads is defined for execution of programs as the main thread. A thread of the at least two threads is assigned as interrupt thread to the main thread. By stopping the main threads by the processor at a subsequent interrupt request and interrupt handling by the interrupt thread the interruption time can be shortened and the performance of the processor can be optimized.