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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Paul Mackerras, Weston, AU;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided to dynamically select a micro-threading (MT) mode of each core of a processor based on a load on each of the respective cores while the processor is running a hypervisor. The approach sets a core's micro-threading mode to a whole-core mode (MT1) in response to identifying that the load on the selected core is at a light load level, sets the core's micro-threading mode to a two-way micro-threading mode (MT2) in response to identifying that the load on the selected core has increased above the light load level, and sets the selected core's micro-threading mode to a four-way micro-threading mode (MT4) in response to identifying that the load on the selected core is at a high load level.