Steven C Sexton

US Patent:

20190004861, Jan 3, 2019

Filed:

Jun 28, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/636021

Inventors:

- Round Rock TX, US
Mitchell A. Markow - Hutto TX, US
Steven A. Sexton - Round Rock TX, US

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

International Classification:

G06F 9/50
G06F 1/32

Abstract:

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a core optimization operation, comprising: enabling all of a plurality of processor cores of a processor; selectively turning off at least one of the plurality of processor cores, the selectively turning off the at least one of the plurality of processor cores being based upon an application to be executed by the processor, the selectively turning off being performed dynamically during runtime of the processor; and, controlling process thread distribution to the plurality of processor cores via an operating system executing on the processor, the process thread distribution not distributing threads to the turned off at least one of the plurality of processor cores.