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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2011
Applicants:

Raj K Ramanujan, Federal Way, WA (US);

Glenn J Hinton, Portland, OR (US);

David J Zimmerman, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raj K Ramanujan, Federal Way, WA (US);

Glenn J Hinton, Portland, OR (US);

David J Zimmerman, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01); G06F 12/0895 (2016.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 1/3225 (2019.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01); G06F 12/0873 (2016.01); G06F 12/0804 (2016.01); G06F 12/0864 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 1/3225 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/0873 (2013.01); G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01); G06F 2212/601 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6082 (2013.01); Y02D 10/13 (2018.01); Y02D 10/14 (2018.01);
Abstract

A system and method are described for flushing a specified region of a memory side cache (MSC) within a multi-level memory hierarchy. For example, a computer system according to one embodiment comprises: a memory subsystem comprised of a non-volatile system memory and a volatile memory side cache (MSC) for caching portions of the non-volatile system memory; and a flush engine for flushing a specified region of the MSC to the non-volatile system memory in response to a deactivation condition associated with the specified region of the MSC.


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