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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2007
Rameshkumar Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);
Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);
LI Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);
Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);
Carl Lebsack, Ames, IA (US);
Quinn A. Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Suresh Srinivas, Portland, OR (US);
Mingqiu Sun, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rameshkumar Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);
Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);
Li Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);
Donald Newell, Portland, OR (US);
Carl Lebsack, Ames, IA (US);
Quinn A. Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Suresh Srinivas, Portland, OR (US);
Mingqiu Sun, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first identifier with data stored by a first agent in a cache line of a cache to indicate the identity of the first agent, and storing the first identifier with the data in the cache line and updating at least one of a plurality of counters associated with the first agent in a metadata storage in the cache, where the counter includes information regarding inter-agent interaction with respect to the cache line. Other embodiments are described and claimed.