Patent ID: 11921558
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. At least one computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute a method comprising:
receiving, from a classifier, network traffic metadata regarding incoming traffic to a system comprising the processor, the network traffic metadata comprising an indication of a type of the incoming traffic; and
controlling operation of the processor based at least in part on the network traffic metadata, comprising:
providing first hint information from a hardware feedback circuit of the processor to a scheduler based at least in part on the network traffic metadata, the scheduler, based at least in part on the first hint information and the network traffic metadata, to schedule threads to one or more first cores of a first core type and one or more second cores of a second core type; and
controlling a frequency of at least the one or more first cores of the first core type, based at least in part on the network traffic metadata.