ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,782, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Autonomous core affinity" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.) and Michael Scharland (Franklin, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a storage system in which processor cores are exclusively allocated to run process threads of individual emulations, the allocations of cores to emulations are dynamically reconfigured based on forecasted workload. A workload configuration model is created by testing different core allocation permutations with different workloads. The best performing permutations are stored in th...