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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Prasanna Jayaraman, Bangalore, IN;
Charles F. Marino, Round Rock, TX (US);
Srinivas B. Purushotham, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivasan Ramani, Cary, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of configuring a prescaling circuit in a performance counter circuit for a computer processing system can include receiving a first number of signaled events at a prescaling circuit configured to generate event counts for a performance counter circuit. The method can include generating event counts at a current event-count rate for the first number of signaled events and determining a detected event-count rate for the signaled events based on a rate at which the first number of signaled events are received at the prescaling circuit. The method can include determining that the detected event-count rate is greater than the current event-count rate. The method can include increasing the current event-count rate in response to determining that the detected event-count rate is greater than the current event-count rate.