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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zhe Wang, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Zeshan A. Chishti, Beaverton, OR (US);
Nagi Aboulenein, King City, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0846 (2016.01); G06F 12/128 (2016.01); G06F 12/0895 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0846 (2013.01); G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 2212/604 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a memory apparatus may include a tag cache to cache tag information, and a memory controller communicatively coupled to the tag cache to determine if a request for a memory line results in a tag cache miss, bring tag information for the missed memory line into the tag cache if the request results in a cache miss, and bring tag information for at least one additional memory line adjacent to the missed memory line into the tag cache if the request results in a cache miss. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.