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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nikhil Gupta, Portland, OR (US);

Israel Hirsh, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;

Esfir Natanzon, Haifa, IL;

Nir Rosenzweig, Givat Ella, IL;

Efraim Rotem, Haifa, IL;

Guy M. Therien, Beaverton, OR (US);

Ankush Varma, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Eliezer Weissmann, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 1/3206 (2019.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01); G06F 1/3293 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3293 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a processor includes: one or more cores to execute instructions; a first request register to store hardware performance state control information for a first core of the one or more cores obtained from an operating system; a second request register to store hardware performance state control override information, the hardware performance state control override information to be received from a management controller coupled to the processor; and a power controller coupled to the one or more cores to control a performance state of the first core based at least in part on the hardware performance state override information when at least one override indicator of the second request register is set. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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