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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:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Christopher J. Shannon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mark Rowland, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Christopher J. Shannon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mark Rowland, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for intelligently evicting cache lines within an inclusive cache architecture. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a technique to evict cache lines within an inclusive cache hierarchy based on the cache coherency traffic generated between an upper level cache and lower level caches.