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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Karthik Ramani, San Jose, CA (US);
Fang Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven Fishwick, Kings Langley, GB;
Jonathan M. Redshaw, St Albans, GB;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to filtering cache accesses. In some embodiments, a control unit is configured to, in response to a request to process a set of data, determine a size of a portion of the set of data to be handled using a cache. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to determine filtering parameters indicative of a set of addresses corresponding to the determined size. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to process one or more access requests for the set of data based on the determined filter parameters, including: using the cache to process one or more access requests having addresses in the set of addresses and bypassing the cache to access a backing memory directly, for access requests having addresses that are not in the set of addresses. The disclosed techniques may reduce average memory bandwidth or peak memory bandwidth.