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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Deif Atallah, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mitchell Kahn, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711144 ; 711-3 ; 711118 ; 711123 ; 711135 ; 711145 ; 711146 ;
Abstract
The state of cached data may be modified without performing a tag comparison. Each cache line includes at least one attribute bit and at least one state bit. A processor issues an instruction requesting modification of the state of all cache lines associated with an attribute specified by the instruction. Qualifying logic modifies the state of a cache line as a function of the attributes stored in the cache line and the attribute specified by the instruction.