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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ARM LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01); G06F 12/0817 (2016.01); G06F 12/0831 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0833 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus () for processing data comprises a plurality of memory access request sources () which generate memory access requests. Each of the memory access request sources has a local memory (), and the apparatus also includes a shared memory (). When the memory access requests are atomic memory access requests, contention may arise over common data. When this occurs, the present technique triggers a switch of processing data in the local memory of a memory access request source to processing data in the shared memory.