METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SAVE POWER UPON RESUME IN MULTI-CORE SYSTEM

摘要

A method is provided for resuming one or more cores of a multi-core processor that is part of an electronic device, the method comprising: grouping wakeup sources into a plurality of computing domains; receiving an interrupt associated with a wakeup source; identifying a first computing domain from the plurality that the wakeup source is part of; mapping the first computing domain to a first indication of one or more states of a first core of the processor; configuring the first core to enter the one or more states that are indicated by the first indication; and resuming the first core after the first core is configured.