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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
George Chiu, Cross River, NY (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Valentina Salapura, Chappaqua, NY (US);
George Chiu, Cross River, NY (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Valentina Salapura, Chappaqua, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A performance monitoring unit (PMU) and method for monitoring performance of events occurring in a multiprocessor system. The multiprocessor system comprises a plurality of processor devices units, each processor device for generating signals representing occurrences of events in the processor device, and, a single shared counter resource for performance monitoring. The performance monitor unit is shared by all processor cores in the multiprocessor system. The PMU is further programmed to monitor event signals issued from non-processor devices.