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Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2016
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Mitchell Bryan Hayenga, Austin, TX (US);

Curtis Glenn Dunham, Austin, TX (US);

Dam Sunwoo, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3033 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 17/30132 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6032 (2013.04);
Abstract

An apparatus has processing circuitry for processing instructions from multiple threads. A storage structure is shared between the threads and has a number of entries. Indexing circuitry generates a target index value identifying an entry of the storage structure to be accessed in response to a request from the processing circuitry specifying a requested index value corresponding to information to be accessed from the storage structure. The indexing circuitry generates the target index value as a function of the requested index value and a key value selected depending on which of the threads trigger the request. The key value for at least one of the threads is updated from time to time.


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