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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hughes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daya Shankar Khudia, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Daehyun Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Jong Soo Park, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard M. Yoo, Stanford, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for implementing a scratchpad memory within a cache using priority hints. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: providing a priority hint for a scratchpad memory implemented using a portion of a cache; determining a page replacement priority based on the priority hint; storing the page replacement priority in a page table entry (PTE) associated with the page; and using the page replacement priority to determine whether to evict one or more cache lines associated with the scratchpad memory from the cache.
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