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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0891 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for detecting false sharing includes running code on a plurality of cores, where the code includes instrumentation and tracking cache invalidations in the code while running the code to produce tracked invalidations in accordance with the instrumentation, where tracking the cache invalidations includes tracking cache accesses to a plurality of cache lines by a plurality of tasks. The method also includes reporting false sharing in accordance with the tracked invalidations to produce a false sharing report.