Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cache monitoring
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Application No.: US16827410Application Date: 2020-03-23
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Publication No.: US11379342B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Ren Wang , Bin Li , Andrew J. Herdrich , Tsung-Yuan C. Tai , Ramakrishna Huggahalli
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Compass IP Law PC
- Main IPC: G06F11/30
- IPC: G06F11/30 ; G06F11/34 ; G06F12/0811 ; G06F12/121 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F12/128 ; G06F12/084 ; G06F12/0888 ; H04L67/1097 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor; a multilevel cache including a plurality of cache levels; a peripheral device configured to write data directly to a selected cache level; and a cache monitoring circuit, including a cache counter to track cache lines evicted from the selected cache level without being processed; and logic to provide a direct write policy according to the cache counter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200218631A1 CACHE MONITORING Public/Granted day:2020-07-09
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