Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Task management or control – Process scheduling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Lee, Thomas (Department: 2195)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Task management or control
Process scheduling
C710S022000, C710S028000, C711S100000, C711S147000, C709S223000, C709S227000, C709S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07155722
ABSTRACT:
A load balancing mechanism and technique that monitors a memory interface associated with a processor resource in a processor pool associated with at least one node of a computer network. The monitoring determines the actual load activity executed by the processor during a specified period of time. The mechanism comprises a hardware access monitor configured to determine the true activity of each processor resource. The access monitor tracks certain memory requests over the memory interface and stores the requests in a counter assigned to each processor. The access monitor then collects statistics from each processor resource of the pool and provides those statistics to a central load balancing resource for use when determining assignment of loads (tasks) to the various processor resources.
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Hilla Stephen C.
Potter Kenneth H.
Cesari and McKenna LLP
Cisco Technology Inc.
Lee Thomas
To Jennifer N.
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