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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1995
Hoichi Cheong, Austin, TX (US);
Dwain A. Hicks, Pflugerville, TX (US);
George M. Lattimore, Austin, TX (US);
Peichun P. Liu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling access to at least one external cache memory in a processing system, the at least one external cache memory having a number of lines of data and a number of bytes per line of data, the method includes determining a smallest cache memory size for use in the at least one external cache memory, and configuring a tag array of the at least one external cache memory to support the smallest determined cache memory size. A system for controlling access to at least one external cache memory in a processing system, the at least one external cache memory having a number of lines of data and a number of bytes per line of data, includes a circuit for configuring each tag field of a plurality of tag fields in a tag array in the at least one external cache memory to have a number of bits sufficient to support a smallest determined cache memory, and utilizing each tag field to determine whether data being accessed resides in the at least one external cache memory.