Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced directed system management interrupt mechanism
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Application No.: US15088429Application Date: 2016-04-01
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Publication No.: US10956345B2Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- Inventor: Gaurav Khanna , Prashant Sethi , Venkatesh Ramamurthy
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Hanley, Flight and Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F13/24
- IPC: G06F13/24 ; G06F1/3206 ; G06F9/4401
Abstract:
A method is described. The method includes determining that a first of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-processor computing system has entered an idle state, triggering a SMI for the first processor core, the first processor core entering a system management mode (SMM) and performing one or more platform management operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170286334A1 ENHANCED DIRECTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT INTERRUPT MECHANISM Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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