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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2024
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicolai Alexander Oswald, San Jose, CA (US);

Evgeny Bolotin, Kenmore, WA (US);

Daniel Joseph Lustig, Woburn, MA (US);

David Nellans, Round Rock, TX (US);

Sean J. Treichler, Piedmont, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0817 (2016.01); G06F 12/0842 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments include techniques for migrating points of coherence (PoCs) in a cache hierarchy. The techniques comprise receiving, at a first cache memory and from a second cache memory, a memory access request associated with a first scope group, and, in response to determining a first directory within the first cache memory includes a first entry indicating (i) a third cache memory is a child of the first cache memory in a tree associated with the first scope group, and (ii) the first cache memory is a root of the tree associated with the first scope group: performing one or more operations to acquire a PoC token from a descendant cache memory of the first cache memory in the tree associated with the first scope group, and updating the first entry to indicate that the first cache memory is a PoC of the tree associated with the first scope group.


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