DYNAMICALLY SWITCHING A WORKLOAD BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS CORES OF A PROCESSOR

In one embodiment, a policy manager may receive operating system scheduling information, performance prediction information for at least one future quantum, and current processor utilization information, and determine a performance prediction for a future quantum and whether to cause a switch betwee...

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Main Author SAKARDA, Premanand
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 21.12.2016
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:In one embodiment, a policy manager may receive operating system scheduling information, performance prediction information for at least one future quantum, and current processor utilization information, and determine a performance prediction for a future quantum and whether to cause a switch between asymmetric cores of a multicore processor based at least in part on this received information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20130844447