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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Soummya Mallick, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711134 ; 711136 ; 711144 ; 711126 ; 711128 ; 711145 ; 711141 ;
Abstract
In a method and system for storing information within a set of a cache memory, the set has multiple locations. The information is stored at a selected one of the locations. The selected location satisfies one of the following conditions (a), (b) and (c): (a) the selected location is invalid; (b) each of the locations is valid, and the selected location is unmodified; (c) each of the locations is valid and modified, and the selected location is least recently used among the locations.