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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Ampere Computing Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard James Shannon, Portland, OR (US);

Stephan Jean Jourdan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Matthew Robert Erler, Portland, OR (US);

Jared Eric Bendt, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Ampere Computing LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/084 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring combined private and shared cache levels in a processor-based system. The processor-based system includes a processor that includes a plurality of processing cores each including execution circuits which are coupled to respective cache(s) and a configurable combined private and shared cache, and which may receive instructions and data on which to perform operations from the cache(s) and the combined private and shared cache. A shared cache portion of each configurable combined private and shared cache can be treated as an independently-assignable portion of the overall shared cache, which is effectively the shared cache portions of all of the processing cores. Each independently-assignable portion of the overall shared cache can be associated with a particular client running on the processor as an example. This approach can provide greater granularity of cache partitioning of a shared cache between particular clients running on a processor.


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