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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:
Aug. 04, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gabriel H. Loh, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jaewoong Sim, Atlanta, GA (US);

Assignee:

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0842 (2013.01); G06F 12/0888 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6042 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments include a partitioning mechanism that partitions a cache memory into sub-partitions for sub-entities. In the described embodiments, the cache memory is initially partitioned into two or more partitions for one or more corresponding entities. During a partitioning operation, the partitioning mechanism is configured to partition one or more of the partitions in the cache memory into two or more sub-partitions for one or more sub-entities of a corresponding entity. A cache controller then uses a corresponding sub-partition for memory accesses by the one or more sub-entities.


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