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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rohit Natarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jurgen M. Schulz, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Christopher D. Shuler, Davis, CA (US);

Rohit K. Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Thomas T. Zou, Millbrae, CA (US);

Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0831 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0835 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable medium is disclosed, the medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer system to perform operations that may include allocating a plurality of storage locations in a system memory of the computer system to a buffer. The operations may further include selecting a particular order for allocating the plurality of storage locations into a cache memory circuit. This particular order may increase a uniformity of cache miss rates in comparison to a linear order. The operations may also include caching subsets of the plurality of storage locations of the buffer using the particular order.


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