Performance allocation method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9142001-B2
Application number	US-201313780523-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2013
Priority date	Jun 11, 2008
Publication date	Sep 22, 2015
Grant date	Sep 22, 2015

Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, a graphics process frame generation frame rate may be monitored in combination with a utilization or work load metric for the graphics process in order to allocate performance resources to the graphics process and in some cases, between the graphics process and a central processing unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a graphics processing unit (GPU) to receive data from a processor and, based on the received data, to generate rendered frames;
circuitry to monitor a rate that frames are rendered and utilization of the GPU, wherein, based on the rate and the GPU utilization, the circuitry to increase a frequency of the processor; and
wherein, based on the rate exceeding a threshold rate value and the GPU utilization falling below a threshold u…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Samson Eric
• Ramadoss Murali

Classifications

• G06F9/50 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• Y02B60/165

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02B60/142

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F11/3409

  Physics · mapped topic

• G09G2330/021

  Physics · mapped topic