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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore Curt White, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Jayesh Vrajlal Sheth, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711142 ; 364D / ; 3642318 ; 3642434 ; 364964342 ; 711118 ; 711141 ; 711145 ; 711146 ; 711154 ;
Abstract
A system and method for enhancing the rapidity of invalidation cycles in a processor having store-through cache holding 4-word data packets whereby an invalidation queue holds addresses of data to be invalidated in cache and the addresses are supplied by a system bus spy module which monitors the addresses of new data words selected for a write operation.