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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2012
Bingxu Gao, Beijing, CN;
Xian Chen, Beijing, CN;
Bingxu Gao, Beijing, CN;
Xian Chen, Beijing, CN;
VIA Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A cache line allocation method, wherein the cache is coupled to a graphic processing unit and the cache comprising a plurality of cache lines, each cache line stores one of a plurality of instructions the method comprising the steps of: putting the plurality of instructions in whole cache lines; locking the whole cache lines if an instruction size is less than a cache size; locking a first number of cache lines when the instruction size is larger than the cache size and a difference between the instruction size and the cache size is less than or equal to a threshold; and locking a second number of cache lines when the instruction size is larger than the cache size and a difference between the instruction size and the cache size is large than the threshold; wherein the first number is greater than the second number.