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- Patent Title: Write-back invalidate by key identifier
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Application No.: US16228121Application Date: 2018-12-20
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Publication No.: US11379592B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Vedvyas Shanbhogue , Stephen Van Doren , Gilbert Neiger , Barry E. Huntley , Amy L. Santoni , Raghunandan Makaram , Hormuzd Khosravi , Siddhartha Chhabra
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F12/0804 ; G06F12/0864 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F12/0891

Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes a core and memory controller coupled to a last level cache (LLC). A first key identifier for a first program is associated with physical addresses of memory that store data of the first program. To flush and invalidate cache lines associated with the first key identifier, the core is to execute an instruction (having the first key identifier) to generate a transaction with the first key identifier. In response to the transaction, a cache controller of the LLC is to: identify matching entries in the LLC by comparison of first key identifier with at least part of an address tag of a plurality of entries in a tag storage structure of the LLC, the matching entries associated with cache lines of the LLC; write back, to the memory, data stored in the cache lines; and mark the matching entries of the tag storage structure as invalid.
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