Patent ID: 9377834
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A load monitoring apparatus, comprising: an operation unit, configured to determine indication information for indicating a working state of each processing module in the operation unit; a working state unit, comprising a hardware counter, the working unit configured to receive the indication information from the operation unit, and determine load amount information in a current monitoring period according to the indication information, wherein the load amount information indicates a load amount state as a number of idle states of the operation unit in the current monitoring period; and a load monitoring unit, configured to receive the load amount information from the working state unit and record the load amount information, and send the load amount information to a system controller, so that the system controller adjusts a working frequency of the operation unit according to the load amount information, wherein the adjusting of the working frequency of the operation unit comprises the operation unit operates at a clock frequency having clock cycles being reduced by a same number of idle states indicated in the load amount information.