公开(公告)号：US12066939B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US17086243

申请日：2020-10-30

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Rahul R. Shah ,  Omkar Maslekar ,  Priya Autee ,  Edwin Verplanke ,  Andrew J. Herdrich ,  Jeffrey D. Chamberlain

IPC: G06F12/00 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F12/0811 ,  G06F12/084 ,  G06F12/1009

CPC classification number: G06F12/0811 ,  G06F9/30047 ,  G06F9/30079 ,  G06F12/084 ,  G06F12/1009

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a manner of demoting multiple cache lines to shared memory. In some examples, a shared cache is accessible by at least two processor cores and a region of the cache is larger than a cache line and is designated for demotion from the cache to the shared cache. In some examples, the cache line corresponds to a memory address in a region of memory. In some examples, an indication that the region of memory is associated with a cache line demote operation is provided in an indicator in a page table entry (PTE). In some examples, the indication that the region of memory is associated with a cache line demote operation is based on a command in an application executed by a processor. In some examples, the cache is an level 1 (L1) or level 2 (L2) cache.