TASK LATENCY DEBUGGING IN SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING COMPUTER SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20180285147A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15478379

    申请日:2017-04-04

    Abstract: An aspect includes performing, for each of a plurality of hardware threads executing on a plurality of cores in a (SMP) computer system, receiving a value of a timer corresponding to the hardware thread, the timer counting a number of clock cycles since a last reset of the timer. The value of the timer is compared to a threshold value for the hardware thread, where the threshold value specifies a number of clock cycles. Based on the value of the timer meeting the threshold value, a control signal is sent to cause all hardware threads currently executing on the core to halt execution and data describing a state of the core is logged. Each of the timers corresponding to each of the plurality of hardware threads are configured to be reset, paused, and restarted independently of each of the other timers.

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