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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:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Eta Scale Ab, Uppsala, SE;

Inventors:

Alberto Ros, Cartagena, ES;

Stefanos Kaxiras, Uppsala, SE;

Assignee:

ETA SCALE AB, Uppsala, SE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0831 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/1018 (2016.01); G06F 12/128 (2016.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01); G06F 12/0815 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/1018 (2013.01); G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/283 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for self-invalidating cachelines in a computer system having a plurality of cores are described. A first one of the plurality of cores, requests to load a memory block from a cache memory local to the first one of the plurality of cores, which request results in a cache miss. This results in checking a read-after-write detection structure to determine if a race condition exists for the memory block. If a race condition exists for the memory block, program order is enforced by the first one of the plurality of cores at least between any older loads and any younger loads with respect to the load that detects the prior store in the first one of the plurality of cores that issued the load of the memory block and causing one or more cache lines in the local cache memory to be self-invalidated.


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