1. A method to schedule the execution of a computer instruction, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an entitlement processor resource percentage for a logical partition on a computer system; associating the logical partition with a hardware thread of a processor of the computer system; storing the entitlement processor resource percentage for the logical partition in a register of the hardware thread associated with the logical partition; receiving an instruction from the logical partition of the computer system; and the processor dispatching the instruction based on the entitlement processor resource percentage stored in the register of the hardware thread associated with the logical partition.