Hardware support for software controlled fast reconfiguration of performance counters
Abstract
Hardware support for software controlled reconfiguration of performance counters may include a plurality of performance counters collecting one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A storage element stores data value representing a time interval, and a timer element reads the data value and detects expiration of the time interval based on the data value and generates a signal. A plurality of configuration registers stores a set of performance counter configurations. A state machine receives the signal and selects a configuration register from the plurality of configuration registers for reconfiguring the one or more performance counters.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1096001
- Patent Number(s):
- 8543738
- Application Number:
- 13/564,270
- Assignee:
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- DOE Contract Number:
- B554331
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Citation Formats
Salapura, Valentina, and Wisniewski, Robert W. Hardware support for software controlled fast reconfiguration of performance counters. United States: N. p., 2013.
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Salapura, Valentina, & Wisniewski, Robert W. Hardware support for software controlled fast reconfiguration of performance counters. United States.
Salapura, Valentina, and Wisniewski, Robert W. Tue .
"Hardware support for software controlled fast reconfiguration of performance counters". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1096001.
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abstractNote = {Hardware support for software controlled reconfiguration of performance counters may include a plurality of performance counters collecting one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A storage element stores data value representing a time interval, and a timer element reads the data value and detects expiration of the time interval based on the data value and generates a signal. A plurality of configuration registers stores a set of performance counter configurations. A state machine receives the signal and selects a configuration register from the plurality of configuration registers for reconfiguring the one or more performance counters.},
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year = {Tue Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
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