Intel Corporation

Terence Nally

John Joseph Browne

Chris MacNamara

Tomasz Kantecki

Liang J Ma

David Hunt

Shobhi Jain

Amruta Misra

Marcel Cornu

Adrian Boczkowski

A performance monitor provides cache miss stall and memory bandwidth usage metric samples to a resource exhaustion detector. The detector can detect the presence of last-level cache and memory bandwidth exhaustion conditions based on the metric samples. If cache miss stalls and memory bandwidth usage are both trending up, the detector reports a memory bandwidth exhaustion condition to a resource controller. If cache miss stalls are trending up and memory bandwidth usage is trending down, the detector reports a last-level cache exhaustion condition to the resource controller. The resource controller can allocate additional last-level cache or memory bandwidth to the processor unit to remediate the resource exhaustion condition. If bandwidth-related metric samples indicate that a processor unit may be overloaded due to receiving high bandwidth traffic, the resource controller can take a traffic rebalancing remedial action.

Processor unit resource exhaustion detection and remediation

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Limerick, Ireland

Terence Nally