公开(公告)号：US20180004433A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15684936

申请日：2017-08-23

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Vedaraman GEETHA ,  Henk G. NEEFS ,  Brian S. MORRIS ,  Sreenivas MANDAVA ,  Massimo SUTERA

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0893 ,  G06F12/0866

CPC classification number: G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0638 ,  G06F3/068 ,  G06F12/0866 ,  G06F12/0893 ,  G06F2212/1021 ,  G06F2212/205 ,  G06F2212/2532 ,  G06F2212/45 ,  G06F2212/60

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for a non-power-of-2 size cache in a first level memory device to cache data present in a second level memory device having a 2n cache size. A request is to a target address having n bits directed to the second level memory device. A determination is made whether a target index, comprising m bits of the n bits of the target address, is within an index set of the first level memory device. A determination is made of a modified target index in the index set of the first level memory device having at least one index bit that differs from a corresponding at least one index bit in the target index. The request is processed with respect to data in a cache line at the modified target index in the first level memory device.