Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Nutanix, Inc.

Shaju Abraham

Prerna Saxena

Naveen M

Akash A

Shreeroop Ajaykumar

According to one aspect, a system includes a processor core, a history buffer, a history buffer logic, and an interrupt controller. The processor core is configured to issue a trigger that causes the history buffer logic to, after a fixed time, flush existing entries in the history buffer and start adding new entries into the history buffer. According to another aspect, a system includes a processor core that includes a load store tracker buffer and a prefetch engine. The buffer is configured to track a critical section memory location associated with critical section data fetched by the processor core. The prefetch engine is configured to obtain the critical section memory location from a previous load store tracker buffer associated with a previous lock holder processor core. The system also includes a lock manager configured to signal the buffer to start and stop tracking the critical section memory.

Cache injection and prefetch mechanisms for improving multi-die processing system performance

Methods, systems and computer readable medium for fast cluster upgrades. The disclosed techniques can be applied during an upgrade of a multi-node cluster when upgrading cluster software and/or hardware. Techniques applied include pausing a virtual machine (VM) at a first node, then communicating then-current states of the paused VM to a second node that executes a migrated clone of the paused VM. While the migrated cloned VM is running at the second node, changes to states of the cloned VM are tracked. When the upgrade of the first node has completed, then when migrating the cloned VM back to the first node, only the tracked state changes of the cloned VM are sent from the second node to the first node. The tracked state changes are used to update the states of the paused VM at the first node. The updated VM is resumed at the first node.

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Bengaluru, India

Shaju Abraham