Hardware support for collecting performance counters directly to memory
Patent
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OSTI ID:1176484
Hardware support for collecting performance counters directly to memory, in one aspect, may include a plurality of performance counters operable to collect one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A first storage element may be operable to store an address of a memory location. A second storage element may be operable to store a value indicating whether the hardware should begin copying. A state machine may be operable to detect the value in the second storage element and trigger hardware copying of data in selected one or more of the plurality of performance counters to the memory location whose address is stored in the first storage element.
- Research Organization:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Assignee:
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,275,964
- Application Number:
- 12/684,172
- OSTI ID:
- 1176484
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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