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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2000
Robert Francis Berry, Austin, TX (US);
Riaz Y. Hussain, Austin, TX (US);
Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, TX (US);
Robert J. Urquhart, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The value of non-discrete metric variables are synchronized at the processor level. When the profiler requests metric information for non-discrete metric variables, the operating system kernel obtains a global value for the requested metric rather than obtaining per-processor metric values for each processor. The global value may be written to trace records. By using a single global per-processor metric for all processors, a single global value of the last metric variable may be used for calculating the resources consumed on all processors since a last recorded event.