Qualcomm Incorporated

Kedar Bhole

Subbarao Palacharla

Alain Artieri

George Patsilaras

Vinod Chamarty

Raghu Sankuratri

Moinul H Khan

Laurent Rene Moll

Sparsh Singhai

Yanru Li

Jean-Jacques Lecler

Andrew Edmund Turner

Girish Bhat

Shyamkumar Thoziyoor

Simon Peter William Booth

Samir Vijay Ginde

Jeffrey Shabel

Rakesh Kumar Gupta

Christophe Avoinne

Vipul Gandhi

Isaac Berk

Jeong-Ho Woo

Gopi Tummala

Pankaj Chaurasia

Hiral Nandu

Syed Minhaj Hassan

Pavan Kumar Thirunagari

Carlo Spitale

Luigi Vinci

Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for data or graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus may configure an address range in a cache. The apparatus may also obtain a request to access data in the cache, where the request to access the data includes an address in the cache that maps to a set index in a plurality of set indexes, where an address value for the set index corresponds to a portion of the address. Further, the apparatus may select an updated address value for the set index, where the updated address value is associated with an updated address within the address range, and the updated address value corresponds to a portion of the updated address. The apparatus may also allocate the data in the request to the updated address value for the set index.

Physical address based set partitioning

Integrated circuits (ICs) employ subsystem shared cache memory for facilitating extension of low-power island (LPI) memory. An LPI subsystem and primary subsystems access a memory subsystem on a first access interface in a first power mode and the LPI subsystem accesses the memory subsystem by a second access interface in the low power mode. In the first power mode, the primary subsystems and the LPI subsystem may send a subsystem memory access request including a virtual memory address to a subsystem memory interface of the memory subsystem to access either data stored in an external memory or a version of the data stored in a shared memory circuit. In the low-power mode, the LPI subsystem sends an LPI memory access request including a direct memory address to an LPI memory interface of the memory subsystem to access the shared memory circuit to extend the LPI memory.

Integrated circuits (IC) employing subsystem shared cache memory for facilitating extension of low-power island (LPI) memory and related methods

Data caching may include storing data associated with DRAM transaction requests in data storage structures organized in a manner corresponding to the DRAM bank, bank group and rank organization. Data may be selected for transfer to the DRAM by selecting among the data storage structures.

Dram-aware caching

Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for dynamically partitioning a system cache by sets and ways into component caches. A system cache memory controller may manage the component caches and manage access to the component caches. The system cache memory controller may receive system cache access requests and reserve locations in the system cache corresponding to the component caches correlated with component cache identifiers of the requests. Reserving locations in the system cache may activate the locations in the system cache for use by a requesting client, and may also prevent other client from using the reserved locations in the system cache. Releasing the locations in the system cache may deactivate the locations in the system cache and allow other clients to use them. A client reserving locations in the system cache may change the amount of locations it has reserved within its component cache.

Method and apparatus for a shared cache with dynamic partitioning

A cache controller adaptively partitions a shared cache. The adaptive partitioning cache controller includes tag comparison and staling logic and selection logic that are responsive to client access requests and various parameters. A component cache is assigned a target occupancy which is compared to a current occupancy. A conditional identification of stale cache lines is used to manage data stored in the shared cache. When a conflict or cache miss is identified, selection logic identifies candidates for replacement preferably among cache lines identified as stale. Each cache line is assigned to a bucket with a fixed number of buckets per component cache. Allocated cache lines are assigned to a bucket as a function of the target occupancy. After a select number of buckets are filled, subsequent allocations result in the oldest cache lines being marked stale. Cache lines are deemed stale when their respective component cache active indicator is de-asserted.

System and method for a shared cache with adaptive partitioning

Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for partitioning a system cache by sets and ways into component caches. A system cache memory controller may manage the component caches and manage access to the component caches. The system cache memory controller may receive system cache access requests specifying component cache identifiers, and match the component cache identifiers with records correlating traits of the component cache identifiers with in a component cache configuration table. The component cache traits may include a set shift trait, set offset trait, and target ways, which may define the locations of the component caches in the system cache. The system cache memory controller may also receive a physical address for the system cache in the system cache access request, determine an indexing mode for the component cache, and translate the physical address for the component cache.

Method and apparatus for flexible cache partitioning by sets and ways into component caches

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