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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2011
Applicants:
Susan Carrie, Mountain View, WA (US);
Vijay Balakrishnan, Mountain View, WA (US);
Inventors:
Susan Carrie, Mountain View, WA (US);
Vijay Balakrishnan, Mountain View, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3466 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 2201/885 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for refining multithread software executed on a processor chip of a computer system. The envisaged processor chip has at least one processor core and a memory cache coupled to the processor core and configured to cache at least some data read from memory. The method includes, in logic distinct from the processor core and coupled to the memory cache, observing a sequence of operations of the memory cache and encoding a sequenced data stream that traces the sequence of operations observed.