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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1998
Barry Watson Krumm, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Charles Franklin Webb, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Timothy John Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Mark Steven Farrell, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Yuen Hung Chan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
SMP computers systems can add to the first level cache a fill mode latch and achieve straightforward, high-performance loading of a writable cache code array that is part of a hierarchical cache structure.A new code array's write control elements include a control latch called 'fill mode' for the BCE controls which when fill mode is active, then a disable is also active, since reads of the code array may not give accurate data when the array is not yet filled-up/fully valid. New mode follows the sequential steps which process code by: