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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Berkin Akin, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Rajat Agarwal, Beaverton, OR (US);
Jong Soo Park, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hughes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chiachen Chou, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a processor includes a sparse access buffer having a plurality of entries each to store for a memory access instruction to a particular address, address information and count information; and a memory controller to issue read requests to a memory, the memory controller including a locality controller to receive a memory access instruction having a no-locality hint and override the no-locality hint based at least in part on the count information stored in an entry of the sparse access buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.