US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 9 for "Efficient central processing unit overcommit for virtual machines with symmetric multi-processing" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,704, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Efficient central processing unit overcommit for virtual machines with symmetric multi-processing" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient central processing unit overcommit for virtual machines with symmetric multi-processing may be provided by, in response to receiving a preemption-disable request on behalf of a virtual machine (VM) running on a physical central processing unit (PCPU), initiating a counter on the PCPU; in response to receiving a preempting task from a hypervisor to perform on the PCPU, che...