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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2009
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis W. Brzezinski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ioannis T. Schoinas, Portland, OR (US);
Anahita Shayesteh, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mani Azimi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis W. Brzezinski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ioannis T. Schoinas, Portland, OR (US);
Anahita Shayesteh, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mani Azimi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a cache memory including cache lines that each have a tag field including a state portion to store a cache coherency state of data stored in the line and a weight portion to store a weight corresponding to a relative importance of the data. In various implementations, the weight can be based on the cache coherency state and a recency of usage of the data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.