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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
David Keppel, Seattle, WA (US);
Kelvin Kwan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jawad Nasrullah, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2016.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G06F 12/121 (2013.01); G06F 12/122 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1239 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method performed by a multi-core processor is described. The method includes, while a core is executing program code, reading a dirty cache line from the core's last level cache and sending the dirty cache line from the core for storage external from the core, where, the dirty cache line has not been evicted from the cache nor requested by another core or processor.