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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2005
Ricky C. Hetherington, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Manish K. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory F. Grohoski, Austin, TX (US);
Bikram Saha, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ricky C. Hetherington, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Manish K. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory F. Grohoski, Austin, TX (US);
Bikram Saha, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiple-core processor providing flexible mapping of processor cores to cache banks. In one embodiment, a processor may include a cache including a number of cache banks. The processor may further include a number of processor cores configured to access the cache banks, as well as core/bank mapping logic coupled to the cache banks and processor cores. The core/bank mapping logic may be configurable to map a cache bank select portion of a memory address specified by a given one of the processor cores to any one of the cache banks.