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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30181 (2013.01); G06F 1/3228 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system-on-a-chip includes a plurality of instruction processors and a hardware block such as a system management unit. The hardware block accesses values of performance counters associated with the plurality of instruction processors and modifies one or more operating points of one or more of the plurality of instruction processors based on comparisons of the instruction arrival rates and the instruction service rates to achieve optimized system metrics.