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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2007
Applicant:
Somnath Mitra, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Inventor:
Somnath Mitra, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a processor regularly writes one or more cache entries back to memory to reduce the likelihood of cache soft errors. The regularly occurring write backs operate independently of Least Recently Used (LRU) status of the entries so that all entries are flushed.