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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Guillermo J. Rozas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 12/128 (2016.01); G06F 12/0831 (2016.01); G06F 12/0808 (2016.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01); G06F 12/0817 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0808 (2013.01); G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0822 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1008 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coherence decoupling buffer. In accordance with a first embodiment, a coherence decoupling buffer is for storing tag information of cache lines evicted from a plurality of cache memories. A coherence decoupling buffer may be free of value information of the plurality of cache memories. A coherence decoupling buffer may also be combined with a coherence memory.