Patent ID: 9003417
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of accounting for processor time usage in a processor core, comprising: at periodic intervals, determining increments to be applied to resource usage counter circuits within the processor core according to amounts of usage of internal resources of the processor core by a plurality of threads executing within the processor core, each of the threads corresponding to one of the resource usage counter circuits; at the end of the periodic interval, incrementing the resource usage counter circuits by the increments determined by the determining, wherein the counter circuits are incremented by different values according to differences in the amounts of usage of the internal resources of the processor core by their corresponding threads; and apportioning the processor time usage over a timebase cycle to respective threads of the plurality of threads in proportion to values contained in the resource usage counter circuits at the ends of the periodic intervals, wherein threads of the plurality of threads that use more of the resources are accounted a higher amount of the processor time usage.