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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arkaprava Basu, Austin, TX (US);
Bradford M. Beckmann, Redmond, WA (US);
Shuai Che, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sooraj Puthoor, Austin, TX (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The described embodiments include a computing device with two or more types of processors and a memory that is shared between the two or more types of processors. The computing device performs operations for handling cache coherency between the two or more types of processors. During operation, the computing device sets a cache coherency indicator in metadata in a page table entry in a page table, the page table entry information about a page of data that is stored in the memory. The computing device then uses the cache coherency indicator to determine operations to be performed when accessing data in the page of data in the memory. For example, the computing device can use the coherency indicator to determine whether a coherency operation is to be performed when a processor of a given type accesses data in the page of data in the memory.