Intel Corporation

Ramesh Kumar Illikkal

Ravishankar Iyer

Donald K Newell

Andrew J Herdrich

Vineet Chadha

Li Zhao

Srihari Makineni

Jaideep Moses

Don Newell

Simon C Steely, Jr

Hari Kannan

Farid Adrangi

Tryggve Fossum

William C Hasenplaugh

Aamer Jaleel

Zhen Fang

Xiaowei Jiang

An apparatus comprises a plurality of cores and a controller coupled to the cores. The controller is to lower an operating point of a first core if a first number based on processor clock cycles per instruction (CPI) associated with a second core is higher than a first threshold. The controller is operable to increase the operating point of the first core if the first number is lower than a second threshold.

Methods and apparatuses for controlling thread contention

An instruction pipeline implemented on a semiconductor chip is described. The semiconductor chip includes an execution unit having the following to execute an interrupt handling instruction. Storage circuitry to hold different sets of micro-ops where each set of micro-ops is to handle a different interrupt. First logic circuitry to execute a set of said sets of micro-ops to handle an interrupt that said set is designed for. Second logic circuitry to return program flow to an invoking program upon said first logic circuitry having handled said interrupt.

Interrupt return instruction with embedded interrupt service functionality

A method and apparatus for throttling power and/or performance of processing elements based on a priority of software entities is herein described. Priority aware power management logic receives priority levels of software entities and modifies operating points of processing elements associated with the software entities accordingly. Therefore, in a power savings mode, processing elements executing low priority applications/tasks are reduced to a lower operating point, i.e. lower voltage, lower frequency, throttled instruction issue, throttled memory accesses, and/or less access to shared resources. In addition, utilization logic potentially trackes utilization of a resource per priority level, which allows the power manager to determine operating points based on the effect of each priority level on each other from the perspective of the resources themselves. Moreover, a software entity itself may assign operating points, which the power manager enforces.

Priority based throttling for power/performance quality of service

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) having storage locations each including a priority indicator field to store a priority level associated with an agent that requested storage of the data in the TLB, and an identifier field to store an identifier of the agent, where the TLB is apportioned according to a plurality of priority levels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Applying quality of service (QoS) to a translation lookaside buffer (TLB)

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first priority indicator with first data stored in a first entry of a cache memory to indicate a priority level of the first data, and updating a count value associated with the first priority indicator. The count value may then be used in determining an appropriate cache line for eviction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Providing quality of service (QoS) for cache architectures using priority information

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first priority indicator with data stored in a first entry of a shared cache memory by a core to indicate a priority level of a first thread, and associating a second priority indicator with data stored in a second entry of the shared cache memory by a graphics engine to indicate a priority level of a second thread. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Dynamic quality of service (QoS) for a shared cache

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for incrementing a counter value associated with a cache line if the cache line is inserted into a first level cache, and storing the cache line into a second level cache coupled to the first level cache or a third level cache coupled to the second level cache based on the counter value, after eviction from the first level cache. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Ramesh Kumar Illikkal