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Central processing unit measurement facility

  • US 7,827,321 B2
  • Filed: 10/02/2008
  • Issued: 11/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product to facilitate managing a collection of data within a processing environment, the computer program product comprising:

  • a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

    storing in a data block of a buffer data relating to execution of one or more tasks of the processing environment, wherein the storing is performed at a plurality of specified intervals, in which a plurality of stores to the data block are performed;

    attempting another store of data to the data block for another specified interval, wherein it is determined that the data block has insufficient space for the another store;

    determining whether an alert indicator is set for the data block, in response to the determining that the data block has insufficient space;

    indicating an interrupt is to be performed at a specified time, in response to the determining indicating the alert indicator is set; and

    storing the data of the another specified interval in another data block of the buffer.

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