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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Saravana Krishnan Kannan, San Diego, CA (US);
Junjie Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Innovation Center, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling processor cores on a computing device are disclosed. One method includes tracking a load of each of a plurality of processor cores and determining a load percentage of each of the processor cores. A core is designated as a busy core if a load percentage of the core exceeds an upper threshold, and the busy core designation is removed if the load percentage of the core drops below a lower threshold. To reduce power consumption and adverse thermal effects, no more than N+M cores are maintained online wherein N is a number of busy cores and M is generally zero, but may be increased to at least one.