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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. 24, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2012
Applicant:

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Brian C. Grayson, Austin, TX (US);

Jyotsna S. Kartha, Austin, TX (US);

Kathryn C. Stacer, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cache management system employs a replacement policy in a manner that manages concurrent accesses to cache. The cache management system comprises a cache, a replacement policy storage for storing replacement statuses of cache lines of the cache, and an update module. The update module, comprising access filtering and a concurrent update handling, determines how updates to the replacement policy storage are handled. In a multi-threaded compute environment, a concurrent access to shared cache causes a selective update to the replacement policy storage.


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