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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for shared virtual memory to manage data coherency in a heterogeneous processing system
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Application No.: US17190671Application Date: 2021-03-03
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Publication No.: US11921635B2Publication Date: 2024-03-05
- Inventor: Altug Koker
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
- The original application number of the division: US15203499 2016.07.06
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/0804 ; G06F12/0811 ; G06F12/0815 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F12/1045

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein provide a scalable coherency tracking implementation that utilizes shared virtual memory to manage data coherency. In one embodiment, coherency tracking granularity is reduced relative to existing coherency tracking solutions, with coherency tracking storage memory moved to memory as a page table metadata. For example and in one embodiment, storage for coherency state is moved from dedicated hardware blocks to system memory, effectively providing a directory structure that is limitless in size.
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