US Patent 11663107 Data processing system performance monitoring

A computer implemented method, performed in a data processing system comprising a performance monitoring unit. The method comprises receiving a set of computer-readable instructions to be executed by the data processing system to implement at least a portion of a neural network, wherein one or more of the instructions is labeled with one or more performance monitoring labels based upon one or more features of the neural network. The method further comprises configuring the performance monitoring unit to count one or more events occurring in one or more components of the data processing system based on the one or more performance monitoring labels.