Title:
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE IN MULTI-THREAD PROCESSOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3609603
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To monitor the performance for every thread in a multi-thread processor by recording individually the 1st and 2nd events which are generated in response to the 1st and 2nd threads respectively.
SOLUTION: A processor 10 includes a performance monitor 50 which supports-the performance monitoring jobs independent of each of plural parallel threads which are supported by the processor 10 itself. The monitor 50 receives the event occurrences which are generated by the operations of an IU 25, an FP 26, an FX 30, an SC 23, a BIU 12 and an L2 cache interface 58 as its input. Then the selected one of these many event occurrences is recorded into a software readable/writable PMC(performance monitor counter) that is included in the monitor 50.
Inventors:
Troy Dale Larsen
Jack Chris Randolph
Andrew Henry Wotreng
Jack Chris Randolph
Andrew Henry Wotreng
Application Number:
JP4919098A
Publication Date:
January 12, 2005
Filing Date:
March 02, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MASCHINES CORPORATION
International Classes:
G06F11/34; (IPC1-7): G06F11/34
Domestic Patent References:
| JP62214449A | ||||
| JP6386053A | ||||
| JP7182209A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroshi Sakaguchi
Yoshihiro City
Shinya Mayama
Hiromichi Watanabe
Yoshihiro City
Shinya Mayama
Hiromichi Watanabe