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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gaurav Khanna, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Prashant Sethi, Folsom, CA (US);
Venkatesh Ramamurthy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 1/3206 (2019.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 9/4418 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is described. The method includes determining that a first of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-processor computing system has entered an idle state, triggering a SMI for the first processor core, the first processor core entering a system management mode (SMM) and performing one or more platform management operations.