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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2009
LI Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);
Rameshkumar G. Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);
Erik G. Hallnor, Beaverton, OR (US);
Martin G. Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Donald K. Newell, Portland, OR (US);
Li Zhao, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ravishankar Iyer, Portland, OR (US);
Rameshkumar G. Illikkal, Portland, OR (US);
Erik G. Hallnor, Beaverton, OR (US);
Martin G. Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Donald K. Newell, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a cache memory, which a number of sets. Each of the sets in the cache memory have several cache lines. The apparatus also includes at least one process resource table. The process resource table maintains a cache line occupancy count of a number of cache lines. Specifically, the cache line occupancy count for each cache line describes the number of cache lines in the cache storing information utilized by a process running on a computer system. Additionally, the process resource table stores the occupancy count of less cache lines than the total number of cache lines in the cache memory.