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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
May. 17, 2023
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xinliang David Li, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tipp James Moseley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christopher Thomas Kennelly, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Assignee:
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/1027 (2016.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6028 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed technology may comprise a mechanism that provides address range based memory hints, based on software memory access patterns. The mechanism includes an interface that can be in the form of a new instruction ('mem_range_hint') that includes as operands (i) the start of the virtual address (“start_vaddr”), (ii) memory region size (“size”), and (iii) a hint (“hint”) associated with the memory access pattern.