Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Management of dynamic sharing of central processing units
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Application No.: US16960973Application Date: 2018-01-15
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Publication No.: US11720388B2Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Amir Roozbeh , Mozhgan Mahloo , Joao Monteiro Soares , Daniel Turull
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/SE2018/050032 2018.01.15
- International Announcement: WO2019/139515A 2019.07.18
- Date entered country: 2020-07-09
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F9/54

Abstract:
It is disclosed a resource sharing manager, RSM, operative to provide efficient utilization of central processing units, CPUs, within virtual servers, each virtual server having an operating system, OS. The RSM dynamically obtains (902) information about ownership and sharable status of said CPUs, and dynamically determines (904) which CPUs are sharable to which virtual servers. The RSM obtains (906) information about that one or more sharable CPUs are available; and obtains (908) information about that one or more virtual servers require more processing resources. The RSM also assigns (910) a first CPU of said sharable CPUs when available, to a first virtual server of said virtual servers. Information about ownership and sharable status of the first CPU, is hence provided to the OS of the first virtual server. Overhead is reduced by circumventing a hypervisor when sharing CPUs in virtual servers. An increase in efficiency of task execution is provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200334070A1 MANAGEMENT OF DYNAMIC SHARING OF CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS Public/Granted day:2020-10-22
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