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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided by which a hardware accelerator detects migration of a software process among processors and uses this information to write operation results to an appropriate cache memory for faster access by the current processor. This mechanism is provided, in part, by incorporation within the hardware accelerator of a mapping table having entries including a cache memory identifier associated with a processor identifier. The hardware accelerator further includes circuitry configured to receive a processor identifier from a calling processor, and to perform a look-up in the mapping table to determine the cache memory identifier associated with the processor identifier. The hardware accelerator uses the associated cache memory identifier to write results of called operations to the cache memory associated with the calling processor, thereby accelerating subsequent operations by the calling processor that rely upon the hardware accelerator results.