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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Tsvika Kurts, Haifa, IL;
Kai Cheng, Portland, OR (US);
Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Tsvika Kurts, Haifa, IL;
Kai Cheng, Portland, OR (US);
Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving an indication of a pending capacity eviction from a caching agent, determining whether an invalidating writeback transaction from the caching agent is likely for a cache line associated with the pending capacity eviction, and if so moving a snoop filter entry associated with the cache line from a snoop filter to a staging area. Other embodiments are described and claimed.