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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin C. Serebrin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kim Hazelwood, Cupertino, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to managing an instruction cache based on temporal locality of cached instructions. One example method includes receiving a request for a first instruction included in a software application; storing the first instruction in a cache structure; receiving a request for a second instruction included in the software application; determining that a cache entry must be removed from the cache structure to create space to store the second instruction; determining that the first instruction should be removed from the cache structure based on temporal locality attributes associated with at least one of the first instruction or the second instruction, the temporal locality attributes representing a likelihood that additional requests will be received for an associated instruction while the instruction is stored in the cache structure; removing the first instruction from the cache structure; and storing the second instruction in the cache structure.