Logical CPU division usage heat map representation

• US 10,114,679 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Rhodes, Christina L., Ponomarev, Peter Seraphim, Duignan, Matthew P., Donate, Phillip Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Chavez, Renee D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ramsey, Patrick R
• Application Number:
  US13/345,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111386A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,489 Days
• Field of Search: 715771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A logical central processing unit (CPU) division management view is displayed for a device having multiple logical CPU divisions. The management view is displayed as a heat map representation that includes multiple cells, each of which corresponds to one of the multiple logical CPU divisions. As part of the heat map representation, each of the multiple cells is displayed in one of multiple different manners based on a usage of the corresponding logical CPU division, and a usage value identifying usage of the corresponding one of the multiple logical processors can also displayed in the cell.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

one or more physical central processing units (CPUs), each physical CPU including multiple logical CPU divisions, and each of the logical CPU divisions being associated with a logical processor identifier;

one or more computer storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical CPUs, configure the one or more physical CPUs to;

determine whether the computing device has less than a threshold number of logical CPU divisions or has at least the threshold number of logical CPU divisions;

cause display, by the computing device and in response to the determination that the computing device has less than the threshold number of logical CPU divisions, of a logical CPU division management view for the computing device as a graph representation, the graph representation including one or more graphs, each of the one or more graphs identifying multiple usage values of a corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions at corresponding multiple times, each usage value of each of the multiple logical CPU divisions being a processing capacity of the logical CPU division that is being used to execute processes on the computing device;

cause display, by the computing device and in response to the determination that the computing device has at least the threshold number of logical CPU divisions, of the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation, the heat map representation including multiple cells each corresponding to one of the multiple logical CPU divisions of the computing device and the multiple cells arranged sequentially according to the logical processor identifier associated with each of the logical CPU divisions,

wherein causing display of the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation comprises;

determining whether a window size of a window that displays the heat map representation is less than a threshold size or at least the threshold size;

causing display, by the computing device and in response to the determination that the window size is at least the threshold size, of a numeric usage value identifying the usage of the corresponding logical CPU division in each of the multiple cells; and

causing display, by the computing device and in response to the determination that the window size is less than the threshold size, of a color intensity corresponding to a range of logical CPU division usage values in each of the multiple cells, without display of a numeric usage value in each of the multiple cells.

2. A computing device as recited in claim 1, each logical CPU division comprising a logical processor.

3. A computing device as recited in claim 1, the color intensities in the multiple cells comprising different intensities of a same color.

4. A computing device as recited in claim 1, the color intensities in the multiple cells comprising each of the multiple different manners comprising a color intensity of the multiple color intensities for backgrounds of one or more of the multiple cells.

5. A computing device as recited in claim 1, the multiple instructions further configuring the one or more physical CPUs to rearrange a layout order of the multiple cells without altering a cell size of the multiple cells in response to the window size of the window that displays the heat map representation being resized.

6. A computing device as recited in claim 1, the multiple instructions further configuring the one or more physical CPUs to cause display, for one or more of the multiple cells and in response to the determination that the window size is at least the threshold size, in the cell of a kernel usage value identifying kernel usage of the corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions.

7. A computing device as recited in claim 1, the multiple instructions further configuring the one or more physical CPUs to cause display, by the computing device, of a tooltip for one of the multiple cells, the tooltip including additional information related to the logical CPU division corresponding to the one of the multiple cells.

8. A computing device as recited in claim 7, the additional information comprising the identifier of the logical processor corresponding to the one of the multiple cells and an indication of whether the logical processor corresponding to the one of the multiple cells is parked.

9. A method comprising:

determining whether a computing device having multiple logical central processing unit (CPU) divisions has less than a threshold number of logical CPU divisions or has at least the threshold number of logical CPU divisions, each of the logical CPU divisions being associated with a logical processor identifier;

displaying, in response to determining that the computing device has less than the threshold number of logical CPU divisions, a logical CPU division management view for the computing device as a graph representation, the graph representation including one or more graphs, each of the one or more graphs identifying multiple usage values of a corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions at corresponding multiple times, each usage value of each of the multiple logical CPU divisions being a processing capacity of the logical CPU division that is being used to execute processes on the computing device; and

displaying, in response to determining that the computing device has at least the threshold number of logical CPU divisions, the logical CPU division management view for the computing device as a heat map representation, the heat map representation including multiple cells each corresponding to one of the multiple logical CPU divisions each of the multiple cells being displayed in one of multiple different manners based on a window size of a window that displays the heat map representation and a usage of the corresponding logical CPU division and the multiple cells arranged sequentially according to the logical processor identifier associated with each of the logical CPU divisions, the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat ma p representation including;

determining whether a window size of a window that displays the heat map representation is less than a threshold size or at least the threshold size;

displaying, in response to the determination that the window size is at least the threshold size, a numeric usage value identifying the usage of the corresponding logical CPU division in each of the multiple cells; and

displaying, in response to the determination that the window size is less than the threshold size, a color intensity corresponding to a range of logical CPU division usage values in each of the multiple cells, without displaying a numeric usage value in each of the multiple cells.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, each logical CPU division comprising a logical processor.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, each logical CPU division comprising a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) node.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a graph representation comprising displaying the logical CPU division management view as a graph representation at the computing device, and the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation comprising displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation at the computing device.

13. A method as recited in claim 9, the color intensities in the multiple cells comprising different intensities of a same color.

14. A method as recited in claim 9, the color intensities in the multiple cells comprising color intensities for backgrounds of the multiple cells.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation further including displaying, in response to the determination that the window size is at least the threshold size, both the numeric usage value identifying the usage of the corresponding logical CPU division and the color intensity corresponding to the logical CPU division usage value in each of the multiple cells.

16. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation further including displaying, in response to the determination that the window size is at least the threshold size, a kernel usage value identifying kernel usage of the corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions in each of the multiple cells.

17. A method as recited in claim 9, the displaying the logical CPU division management view as a heat map representation further comprising:

displaying, if the corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions is parked, an indication in the corresponding cell that the corresponding one of the multiple logical CPU divisions is parked.

18. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising displaying a tooltip for one of the multiple cells, the tooltip including additional information related to the logical CPU division corresponding to the one of the multiple cells.

19. A method as recited in claim 18, the additional information comprising the identifier of the logical processor corresponding to the one of the multiple cells and an indication of whether the logical processor corresponding to the one of the multiple cells is parked.

20. A method as recited in claim 18, the additional information comprising an indication of a particular number of processes contributing to the usage of the logical CPU division corresponding to the one of the multiple cells.