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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3024 (2013.01); G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 11/3466 (2013.01); G06F 2201/86 (2013.01); G06F 2201/88 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for generating performance metrics of a processor. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: one or more simultaneous multithreading cores to simultaneously execute multiple instruction threads; a plurality of performance monitor counters, each to maintain a count of events occurring as a result of the execution of the multiple instruction threads; and a performance monitor unit to generate a plurality of performance metric values using the event counts stored in the performance monitor counters and in response to receipt of a request from software for the performance metric values.