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- Patent Title: Data processing apparatus and method for transferring workload between source and destination processing circuitry
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Application No.: US13873597Application Date: 2013-04-30
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Publication No.: US09286222B2Publication Date: 2016-03-15
- Inventor: Peter Richard Greenhalgh
- Applicant: ARM Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F9/50

Abstract:
In response to a transfer stimulus, performance of a processing workload is transferred from a source processing circuitry to a destination processing circuitry, in preparation for the source processing circuitry to be placed in a power saving condition following the transfer. To reduce the number of memory fetches required by the destination processing circuitry following the transfer, a cache of the source processing circuitry is maintained in a powered state for a snooping period. During the snooping period, cache snooping circuitry snoops data values in the source cache and retrieves the snoop data values for the destination processing circuitry.
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