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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2005
Applicant:
John William Bockhaus, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Inventor:
John William Bockhaus, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
System and method for memory utilization in a computer system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to receipt of a new cache line-sized memory request, determining whether a number of pending requests is less than a fetch limit that is equal to or less than a number of cache lines of a cache memory; and responsive to a determination that the number of pending requests is less than the fetch limit, performing an arbitration among all of the pending requests, including the new cache line-sized memory request.