Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory consistency in memory hierarchy with relaxed ordering
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Application No.: US17150472Application Date: 2021-01-15
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Publication No.: US11430174B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Terence M. Potter , Richard W. Schreyer , James J. Ding , Alexander K. Kan , Michael Imbrogno
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Michael B. Davis; Dean M. Munyon
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06T15/00

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to specifying memory consistency constraints. In some embodiments, an instruction may specify, for a memory operation, a type of memory consistency and a scope at which to enforce the type of consistency. For example, these fields may specify whether to sequence memory accesses relative to the operation at one or more of multiple different cache levels based on the type of memory consistency and the scope.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210134045A1 Memory Consistency in Memory Hierarchy with Relaxed Ordering Public/Granted day:2021-05-06
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