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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2011
William Lloyd Bircher, Austin, TX (US);
Alexander J. Branover, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
William Lloyd Bircher, Austin, TX (US);
Alexander J. Branover, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor includes a plurality of exclusive resources, a shared resource, and a controller configured to manage power state transitions of each of the plurality of exclusive resources and the shared resource. The controller receives a request from a resource to transition from a first power state to a lower power state and, in response to receiving the request, the controller controls power state transitions of the resource according to a first power control threshold when the resource is one of the plurality of exclusive resources and according to a second power control threshold that is greater than the first power control threshold when the resource is the shared resource.