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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2007
Applicants:
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher D. S. Donham, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael J. M. Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher D. S. Donham, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the event of a cache miss, data is written from main memory to the cache. To select a cache line to write the data to, cache lines in the cache that are not referenced during a certain interval are identified. One of the identified cache lines is selected and the data can be written to that cache line.