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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Steven Gottlieb, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Paul Corwin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712225 ; 712216 ; 712219 ; 712 23 ; 712 24 ; 712 42 ; 712228 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided that operates in conjunction with a processor having registers and associated caches and a memory. A load management module monitors loads that return data to the registers, including bus requests generated in response to loads that miss in one or more of the caches. A cache miss register includes entries, each of which is associated with one of the registers. A mapping module maps a bus request to a register and sets a bit in a cache miss register entry associated with the register when the bus request is directed to a higher level structure in the memory system.