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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Gregory H. Bellows, Austin, TX (US);

Joaquin Madruga, Austin, TX (US);

Ross A. Mikosh, Austin, TX (US);

Barry L. Minor, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gregory H. Bellows, Austin, TX (US);

Joaquin Madruga, Austin, TX (US);

Ross A. Mikosh, Austin, TX (US);

Barry L. Minor, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/0806 (2013.01); G06F 12/0813 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2542 (2013.01); G06F 2212/601 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6028 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program product of operating a data processing system that can include or be coupled to multiple processor cores. In one or more embodiments, each of multiple memory objects can be populated with work items and can be associated with attributes that can include information which can be used to describe data of each memory object and/or which can be used to process data of each memory object. The attributes can be used to indicate one or more of a cache policy, a cache size, and a cache line size, among others. In one or more embodiments, the attributes can be used as a history of how each memory object is used. The attributes can be used to indicate cache history statistics (e.g., a hit rate, a miss rate, etc.).


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