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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Applicants:
Livio B. Soares, Toronto, CA;
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mani Azimi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Livio B. Soares, Toronto, CA;
Naveen Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mani Azimi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6024 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor comprising a page tracker buffer (PTB), the PTB including a plurality of entries to store an address to a cache page and to store a signature to track an access to each cache line of the cache page, and a PTB handler, the PTB handler to load entries into the PTB and to update the signature. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.