Mode-based castout destination selection
    1.
    发明授权
    Mode-based castout destination selection 失效
    基于模式的castout目的地选择

    公开(公告)号:US08312220B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-13

    申请号:US12420933

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0811 G06F12/12

    摘要: In response to a data request of a first of a plurality of processing units, the first processing unit selects a victim cache line to be castout from the lower level cache of the first processing unit and determines whether a mode is set. If not, the first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric an LCO command identifying the victim cache line and indicating that a lower level cache is the intended destination. If the mode is set, the first processing unit issues a castout command with an alternative intended destination. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the first processing unit removes the victim cache line from its lower level cache, and the victim cache line is held elsewhere in the data processing system. The mode can be set to inhibit castouts to system memory, for example, for testing.

    摘要翻译: 响应于多个处理单元中的第一处理单元的数据请求,第一处理单元从第一处理单元的较低级高速缓存中选择要丢弃的牺牲高速缓存行,并且确定是否设置了模式。 如果不是,则第一处理单元在互连结构上发出识别受害者高速缓存行的LCO命令,并指示较低级别的高速缓存是预期的目的地。 如果模式被设置,则第一处理单元发出具有替代预定目的地的停顿命令。 响应于指示LCO命令成功的LCO命令的一致性响应,第一处理单元从其较低级高速缓存中去除受害者高速缓存行,并且将受害者高速缓存行保持在数据处理系统的其他地方。 该模式可以设置为抑制系统内存的丢弃,例如进行测试。

    Empirically Based Dynamic Control of Transmission of Victim Cache Lateral Castouts
    2.
    发明申请
    Empirically Based Dynamic Control of Transmission of Victim Cache Lateral Castouts 有权
    基于经验的动态控制受害者缓存横向铸件传动

    公开(公告)号:US20100262778A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-14

    申请号:US12421180

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    摘要: In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from a lower level cache, and a target lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units is selected. A determination is made whether the selected target lower level cache has provided more than a threshold number of retry responses to lateral castout (LCO) commands of the first lower level cache, and if so, a different target lower level cache is selected. The first processing unit thereafter issues a LCO command on the interconnect fabric. The LCO command identifies the victim cache line to be castout and indicates that the target lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. In response to a successful coherence response to the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache.

    摘要翻译: 响应于数据请求,选择从较低级别高速缓冲存储器进行丢弃的受害者高速缓存行,并且选择多个处理单元之一的目标下级高速缓存。 确定所选择的目标下层高速缓存是否为第一较低级别高速缓存的横向转移(LCO)命令提供了超过阈值数量的重试响应,如果是,则选择不同的目标低级高速缓存。 此后,第一处理单元在互连结构上发出LCO命令。 LCO命令标识要丢弃的受害者缓存行,并指示目标下级缓存是受害缓存行的预期目标。 响应于对LCO命令的成功的一致性响应,从第一低级缓存中移除受害者高速缓存行并保存在第二较低级缓存中。

    Mode-Based Castout Destination Selection
    3.
    发明申请
    Mode-Based Castout Destination Selection 失效
    基于模式的Castout目的地选择

    公开(公告)号:US20100262783A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-14

    申请号:US12420933

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0811 G06F12/12

    摘要: In response to a data request of a first of a plurality of processing units, the first processing unit selects a victim cache line to be castout from the lower level cache of the first processing unit and determines whether a mode is set. If not, the first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric an LCO command identifying the victim cache line and indicating that a lower level cache is the intended destination. If the mode is set, the first processing unit issues a castout command with an alternative intended destination. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the first processing unit removes the victim cache line from its lower level cache, and the victim cache line is held elsewhere in the data processing system. The mode can be set to inhibit castouts to system memory, for example, for testing.

    摘要翻译: 响应于多个处理单元中的第一处理单元的数据请求,第一处理单元从第一处理单元的较低级高速缓存中选择要丢弃的牺牲高速缓存行,并且确定是否设置了模式。 如果不是,则第一处理单元在互连结构上发出识别受害者高速缓存行的LCO命令,并指示较低级别的高速缓存是预期的目的地。 如果模式被设置,则第一处理单元发出具有替代预定目的地的停顿命令。 响应于指示LCO命令成功的LCO命令的一致性响应,第一处理单元从其较低级高速缓存中去除受害者高速缓存行,并且将受害者高速缓存行保持在数据处理系统的其他地方。 该模式可以设置为抑制系统内存的丢弃,例如进行测试。

    Empirically based dynamic control of transmission of victim cache lateral castouts
    4.
    发明授权
    Empirically based dynamic control of transmission of victim cache lateral castouts 有权
    基于经验的动态控制受害者缓存横向传播的传输

    公开(公告)号:US08347036B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-01

    申请号:US12421180

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    摘要: In response to a data request, a victim cache line is selected for castout from a lower level cache, and a target lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units is selected. A determination is made whether the selected target lower level cache has provided more than a threshold number of retry responses to lateral castout (LCO) commands of the first lower level cache, and if so, a different target lower level cache is selected. The first processing unit thereafter issues a LCO command on the interconnect fabric. The LCO command identifies the victim cache line to be castout and indicates that the target lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. In response to a successful coherence response to the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in the second lower level cache.

    摘要翻译: 响应于数据请求,选择从较低级别高速缓冲存储器进行丢弃的受害者高速缓存行,并且选择多个处理单元之一的目标下级高速缓存。 确定所选择的目标下层高速缓存是否为第一较低级别高速缓存的横向转移(LCO)命令提供了超过阈值数量的重试响应,如果是,则选择不同的目标低级高速缓存。 此后,第一处理单元在互连结构上发出LCO命令。 LCO命令标识要丢弃的受害者缓存行,并指示目标下级缓存是受害缓存行的预期目标。 响应于对LCO命令的成功的一致性响应,从第一低级缓存中移除受害者高速缓存行并保存在第二较低级缓存中。

    Empirically Based Dynamic Control of Acceptance of Victim Cache Lateral Castouts
    5.
    发明申请
    Empirically Based Dynamic Control of Acceptance of Victim Cache Lateral Castouts 有权
    基于经验的动态控制接受受害者缓存横向铸件

    公开(公告)号:US20100262784A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-14

    申请号:US12421017

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    摘要: A second lower level cache receives an LCO command issued by a first lower level cache on an interconnect fabric. The LCO command indicates an address of a victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache and indicates that the second lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. The second lower level cache determines whether to accept the victim cache line from the first lower level cache based at least in part on the address of the victim cache line indicated by the LCO command. In response to determining not to accept the victim cache line, the second lower level cache provides a coherence response to the LCO command refusing the identified victim cache line. In response to determining to accept the victim cache line, the second lower level cache updates an entry corresponding to the identified victim cache line.

    摘要翻译: 第二低级缓存接收由互连结构上的第一较低级缓存发出的LCO命令。 LCO命令指示要从第一较低级高速缓存丢弃的受害者高速缓存行的地址,并且指示第二较低级高速缓存是受害者高速缓存行的预期目的地。 第二较低级缓存至少部分地基于由LCO命令指示的受害缓存行的地址来确定是否从第一低级缓存接受受害者高速缓存行。 响应于确定不接受受害者缓存行,第二较低级缓存为LCO命令提供拒绝所识别的受害者缓存行的一致性响应。 响应于确定接受受害者缓存行,第二较低级缓存更新对应于所识别的受害者高速缓存行的条目。

    Empirically based dynamic control of acceptance of victim cache lateral castouts
    6.
    发明授权
    Empirically based dynamic control of acceptance of victim cache lateral castouts 有权
    基于经验的动态控制接受受害者缓存横向突出

    公开(公告)号:US08327073B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-04

    申请号:US12421017

    申请日:2009-04-09

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    摘要: A second lower level cache receives an LCO command issued by a first lower level cache on an interconnect fabric. The LCO command indicates an address of a victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache and indicates that the second lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. The second lower level cache determines whether to accept the victim cache line from the first lower level cache based at least in part on the address of the victim cache line indicated by the LCO command. In response to determining not to accept the victim cache line, the second lower level cache provides a coherence response to the LCO command refusing the identified victim cache line. In response to determining to accept the victim cache line, the second lower level cache updates an entry corresponding to the identified victim cache line.

    摘要翻译: 第二低级缓存接收由互连结构上的第一较低级缓存发出的LCO命令。 LCO命令指示要从第一较低级高速缓存丢弃的受害者高速缓存行的地址,并且指示第二较低级高速缓存是受害者高速缓存行的预期目的地。 第二较低级缓存至少部分地基于由LCO命令指示的受害缓存行的地址来确定是否从第一低级缓存接受受害者高速缓存行。 响应于确定不接受受害者缓存行,第二较低级缓存为LCO命令提供拒绝所识别的受害者缓存行的一致性响应。 响应于确定接受受害者缓存行,第二较低级缓存更新对应于所识别的受害者高速缓存行的条目。

    Victim cache prefetching
    7.
    发明授权
    Victim cache prefetching 失效
    受害者缓存预取

    公开(公告)号:US08209489B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-26

    申请号:US12256064

    申请日:2008-10-22

    IPC分类号: G06F12/08

    摘要: A processing unit for a multiprocessor data processing system includes a processor core and a cache hierarchy coupled to the processor core to provide low latency data access. The cache hierarchy includes an upper level cache coupled to the processor core and a lower level victim cache coupled to the upper level cache. In response to a prefetch request of the processor core that misses in the upper level cache, the lower level victim cache determines whether the prefetch request misses in the directory of the lower level victim cache and, if so, allocates a state machine in the lower level victim cache that services the prefetch request by issuing the prefetch request to at least one other processing unit of the multiprocessor data processing system.

    摘要翻译: 用于多处理器数据处理系统的处理单元包括处理器核心和耦合到处理器核心的高速缓存层级以提供低延迟数据访问。 高速缓存层级包括耦合到处理器核心的高级缓存和耦合到高级缓存的较低级别的牺牲缓存。 响应于在高级缓存中丢失的处理器核心的预取请求,较低级别的受害者缓存确定预取请求是否丢失在较低级别的受害者缓存的目录中,并且如果是,则在下级缓存中分配状态机 通过向多处理器数据处理系统的至少一个其他处理单元发出预取请求来服务于预取请求。

    Delete of cache line with correctable error
    9.
    发明授权
    Delete of cache line with correctable error 失效
    删除具有可纠正错误的缓存行

    公开(公告)号:US08291259B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-16

    申请号:US12424412

    申请日:2009-04-15

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    摘要: A processing unit includes a processor core and a cache memory coupled to the processor core. The cache memory includes a data array, a directory of the data array, error detection logic that sequentially detects a first, second and third correctable errors in the data array of the cache memory and provides indications of detection of the first, second and third correctable errors, and control circuitry that, responsive to the indication of the third correctable error and an indication that the first and second correctable errors occurred at too high a frequency, marks an entry of the data array containing a cache line having the third correctable error as deleted in the directory of the cache memory regardless of which entry of the data array contains a cache line having the second correctable error.

    摘要翻译: 处理单元包括处理器核心和耦合到处理器核心的高速缓存存储器。 高速缓冲存储器包括数据阵列,数据阵列的目录,错误检测逻辑,其顺序地检测高速缓冲存储器的数据阵列中的第一,第二和第三可校正错误,并提供第一,第二和第三可校正的检测指示 错误和控制电路,其响应于第三可校正错误的指示和第一和第二可校正错误在太高频率处发生的指示,将包含具有第三可校正错误的高速缓存行的数据阵列的条目标记为 在高速缓冲存储器的目录中被删除,而不管数据阵列的哪个条目包含具有第二可校正错误的高速缓存行。

    Delete Of Cache Line With Correctable Error
    10.
    发明申请
    Delete Of Cache Line With Correctable Error 失效
    删除缓存线与可纠正的错误

    公开(公告)号:US20100268984A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-10-21

    申请号:US12424412

    申请日:2009-04-15

    IPC分类号: G06F11/07

    摘要: A processing unit includes a processor core and a cache memory coupled to the processor core. The cache memory includes a data array, a directory of the data array, error detection logic that sequentially detects a first, second and third correctable errors in the data array of the cache memory and provides indications of detection of the first, second and third correctable errors, and control circuitry that, responsive to the indication of the third correctable error and an indication that the first and second correctable errors occurred at too high a frequency, marks an entry of the data array containing a cache line having the third correctable error as deleted in the directory of the cache memory regardless of which entry of the data array contains a cache line having the second correctable error.

    摘要翻译: 处理单元包括处理器核心和耦合到处理器核心的高速缓存存储器。 高速缓冲存储器包括数据阵列,数据阵列的目录,错误检测逻辑,其顺序地检测高速缓冲存储器的数据阵列中的第一,第二和第三可校正错误,并提供第一,第二和第三可校正的检测指示 错误和控制电路,其响应于第三可校正错误的指示和第一和第二可校正错误在太高频率处发生的指示,将包含具有第三可校正错误的高速缓存行的数据阵列的条目标记为 在高速缓冲存储器的目录中被删除,而不管数据阵列的哪个条目包含具有第二可校正错误的高速缓存行。