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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2010
Applicant:
Kazuomi Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuomi Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 12/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6046 (2013.01);
Abstract
To aim to provide a cache memory device that performs a line size determination process for determining a refill size, in advance of a refill process that is performed at cache miss time. According to the line size determination process, the number of reads/writes of a management target line that belongs to a set is acquired (S), and in the case where the numbers of reads completely match one another and the numbers of writes completely match one another (S: Yes), the refill size is determined to be large (S). Otherwise (S: No), the refill size is determined to be small (S).