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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2005
Richard A. Hankins, San Jose, CA (US);
Gautham N. Chinya, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Shivnandan D. Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
Bryant E. Bigbee, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
John P. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Trung A. Diep, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiang Zou, Beaverton, OR (US);
Baiju V. Patel, Portland, OR (US);
Paul M. Petersen, Champaign, IL (US);
Sanjiv M. Shah, Champaign, IL (US);
Ryan N. Rakvic, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prashant Sethi, Folsom, CA (US);
Richard A. Hankins, San Jose, CA (US);
Gautham N. Chinya, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Shivnandan D. Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
Bryant E. Bigbee, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
John P. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Trung A. Diep, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiang Zou, Beaverton, OR (US);
Baiju V. Patel, Portland, OR (US);
Paul M. Petersen, Champaign, IL (US);
Sanjiv M. Shah, Champaign, IL (US);
Ryan N. Rakvic, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prashant Sethi, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique to monitor software thread performance and update software that issues or uses the thread(s) to reduce performance-inhibiting events. At least one embodiment of the invention uses hardware and/or software timers or counters to monitor various events associated with executing user-level threads and report these events back to a user-level software program, which can use the information to avoid or at least reduce performance-inhibiting events associated with the user-level threads.