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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2009
Martin G. Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Jeremy J. Shrall, Portland, OR (US);
Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Martin G. Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Jeremy J. Shrall, Portland, OR (US);
Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for recording a time stamp counter (TSC) value of a first TSC counter of a processor before a system suspension, accessing the stored TSC value after the system suspension, and directly updating a thread offset value associated with a first thread executing on a first core of the processor with the stored TSC value, without performing a synchronization between a plurality of cores of the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.