Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lazy increment for high frequency counters
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Application No.: US15721800Application Date: 2017-09-30
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Publication No.: US11080202B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Niall D. McDonnell , Christopher MacNamara , John J. Browne , Andrew Cunningham , Brendan Ryan , Patrick Fleming , Namakkal N. Venkatesan , Bruce Richardson , Tomasz Kantecki , Sean Harte , Pierre Laurent
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0888 ; G06F12/0806 ; G06F12/0817 ; G06F12/0837 ; G06F9/00
Abstract:
A computing apparatus, including: a processor; a pointer to a counter memory location; and a lazy increment counter engine to: receive a stimulus to update the counter; and lazy increment the counter including issuing a weakly-ordered increment directive to the pointer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190102312A1 LAZY INCREMENT FOR HIGH FREQUENCY COUNTERS Public/Granted day:2019-04-04
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