Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stack cache management and coherence techniques
- Patent Title (中): 堆栈缓存管理和一致性技术
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Application No.: US13887196Application Date: 2013-05-03
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Publication No.: US09189399B2Publication Date: 2015-11-17
- Inventor: Lena E. Olson , Yasuko Eckert , Bradford M. Beckmann
- Applicant: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F12/12

Abstract:
A processor system presented here has a plurality of execution cores and a plurality of stack caches, wherein each of the stack caches is associated with a different one of the execution cores. A method of managing stack data for the processor system is presented here. The method maintains a stack cache manager for the plurality of execution cores. The stack cache manager includes entries for stack data accessed by the plurality of execution cores. The method processes, for a requesting execution core of the plurality of execution cores, a virtual address for requested stack data. The method continues by accessing the stack cache manager to search for an entry of the stack cache manager that includes the virtual address for requested stack data, and using information in the entry to retrieve the requested stack data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140143497A1 STACK CACHE MANAGEMENT AND COHERENCE TECHNIQUES Public/Granted day:2014-05-22
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