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Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Jeff Rupley, Round Rock, TX (US);

Tarun Nakra, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Jeff Rupley, Round Rock, TX (US);

Tarun Nakra, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 5/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0808 (2013.01); G06F 5/065 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor includes a first cache memory and a bus unit in some embodiments. The bus unit includes a plurality of buffers and is operable to allocate a selected buffer of a plurality of buffers for a fill request associated with a first cache line to be stored in a first cache memory, load fill data from the first cache line into the selected buffer, and transfer the fill data to the first cache memory in parallel with storing eviction data for an evicted cache line from the first cache memory in the selected buffer.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Rupley, Jeff. (2016). Merging eviction and fill buffers for cache line transactions (U.S. Patent No. 9244841). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9244841

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