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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1998
Lance Hacking, Portland, OR (US);
Shreekant Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas Huff, Portland, OR (US);
Vladimir Pentkovski, Folsom, CA (US);
Hsien-cheng E. Hsieh, Gold River, CA (US);
Lance Hacking, Portland, OR (US);
Shreekant Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas Huff, Portland, OR (US);
Vladimir Pentkovski, Folsom, CA (US);
Hsien-Cheng E. Hsieh, Gold River, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for including in a computer system, instructions for performing cache memory invalidate and cache memory flush operations. In one embodiment, the computer system comprises a cache memory having a plurality of cache lines each of which stores data, and a storage area to store a data operand. An execution unit is coupled to the storage area, and operates on data elements in the data operand to invalidate data in a predetermined portion of the plurality of cache lines in response to receiving a single instruction.