Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, processor and method of controlling cache memory
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Application No.: US12230930Application Date: 2008-09-08
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Publication No.: US08423719B2Publication Date: 2013-04-16
- Inventor: Koji Kobayashi
- Applicant: Koji Kobayashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC Corporation
- Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2007-269841 20071017
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a processor which issues a plurality of commands including an identifier for classifying each of the commands, a cache memory which includes a plurality of ways to store a data corresponding to a command, wherein the cache memory includes a register to store the identifier, the register corresponding to at least one of the ways being fixed, the fixed way exclusively storing the data corresponding to the identifier during which the register stores the identifier, a replacement controller which selects a replacement way based on a predetermined replacement algorithm in case of a cache miss, and excludes the fixed way from a candidate of the replacement way when the register corresponding to the fixed way stores the identifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090106497A1 Apparatus, processor and method of controlling cache memory Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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