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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Alexander L. Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven J. Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Charles Mccarver, Madison, AL (US);
Stewart Glenn Carlton, Madison, AL (US);
Anjana Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Yan Yan Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander L. Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven J. Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Charles McCarver, Madison, AL (US);
Stewart Glenn Carlton, Madison, AL (US);
Anjana Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Yan Yan Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for arbitrating requests received from one of the multiple clients of an L1 cache and for providing hints to the client to assist in arbitration. The L1 cache services multiple clients with diverse latency and bandwidth requirements and may be reconfigured to provide memory spaces for clients executing multiple parallel threads, where the memory spaces each have a different scope.