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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ruchira Sasanka, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/128 (2016.01); G06F 12/0864 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0808 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 12/0808 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 2212/283 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6032 (2013.04); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01); G06F 2212/69 (2013.01);
Abstract
A processor includes a processor core and a cache controller coupled to the processor core. The cache controller is to allocate, for a memory, a plurality of cache entries in a cache, wherein the processor core is to: detect an amount of the memory installed in a computing system and, responsive to detecting less than a maximum allowable amount of the memory for the computing system, direct the cache controller to increase a number of ways of the cache in which to allocate the plurality of cache entries.