18479027. INSTRUCTION BLOCK BASED PERFORMANCE MONITORING (INTEL CORPORATION)
INSTRUCTION BLOCK BASED PERFORMANCE MONITORING
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Inventor(s)
Kshitij Arun Doshi of Tempe AZ US
Rahul Khanna of Portland OR US
INSTRUCTION BLOCK BASED PERFORMANCE MONITORING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18479027 titled 'INSTRUCTION BLOCK BASED PERFORMANCE MONITORING
Original Abstract Submitted
Techniques for block based performance monitoring are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes execution hardware to execute a plurality of instructions; and block-based sampling hardware. The block-based sampling hardware is to identify, based on a first branch instruction of the plurality of instructions and a second branch instruction of the plurality of instructions, a block of instructions; and to collect, during execution of the block of instructions, performance information.