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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ren Wang, Portland, OR (US);
Bin Li, Portland, OR (US);
Andrew J. Herdrich, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Portland, OR (US);
Ramakrishna Huggahalli, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor; a multilevel cache including a plurality of cache levels; a peripheral device configured to write data directly to a directly writable cache; and a cache monitoring circuit, including cache counters La to be incremented when a cache line is allocated into the directly writable cache, Lp to be incremented when a cache line is processed by the processor and deallocated from the directly writable cache, and Le to be incremented when a cache line is evicted from the directly writable cache to the memory, wherein the cache monitoring circuit is to determine a direct write policy according to the cache counters.