Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hardware filter for tracking block presence in large caches
- Patent Title (中): 用于跟踪大型缓存中的块的硬件过滤器
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Application No.: US13307815Application Date: 2011-11-30
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Publication No.: US08868843B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Gabriel H. Loh , Mark D. Hill
- Applicant: Gabriel H. Loh , Mark D. Hill
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
- Agent Rory D. Rankin
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08

Abstract:
A system and method for efficiently determining whether a requested memory location is in a large row-based memory of a computing system. A computing system includes a processing unit that generates memory requests on a first chip and a cache (LLC) on a second chip connected to the first chip. The processing unit includes an access filter that determines whether to access the cache. The cache is fabricated on top of the processing unit. The processing unit determines whether to access the access filter for a given memory request. The processing unit accesses the access filter to determine whether given data associated with a given memory request is stored within the cache. In response to determining the access filter indicates the given data is not stored within the cache, the processing unit generates a memory request to send to off-package memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130138894A1 HARDWARE FILTER FOR TRACKING BLOCK PRESENCE IN LARGE CACHES Public/Granted day:2013-05-30
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