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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2007
Hyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott J. Norton, San Jose, CA (US);
Hyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott J. Norton, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for accurate measurement of utilizations in a hardware multithreaded processor core. The apparatus and method perform the acts including: determining idle time spent cycles which are cycles that are spent in idle by a hardware thread in a processor core; determining idle consumed cycles which are cycles that are consumed in the idle time spent cycles, by the hardware thread; and determining at least one of a processor core utilization and a logical processor utilization based upon at least one of the idle time spent cycles (d) and idle consumed cycles (d).