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Hardware enabled performance counters with support for operating system context switching

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OSTI ID:1187936

A device for supporting hardware enabled performance counters with support for context switching include a plurality of performance counters operable to collect information associated with one or more computer system related activities, a first register operable to store a memory address, a second register operable to store a mode indication, and a state machine operable to read the second register and cause the plurality of performance counters to copy the information to memory area indicated by the memory address based on the mode indication.

Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
9,069,891
Application Number:
12/684,190
OSTI ID:
1187936
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Afterburner (network-independent card for protocols) journal July 1993
Instruction-level characterization of scientific computing applications using hardware performance counters conference January 1999
A Portable Programming Interface for Performance Evaluation on Modern Processors journal August 2000