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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:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

May. 21, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Robert H. Bell, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);

Hong L. Hua, Austin, TX (US);

William A. Maron, Austin, TX (US);

Mysore S. Srinivas, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to operations that include determining that an access request to a computer memory results in a cache miss. In some examples, the operations further include determining an amount of cache resources used to service additional cache misses that occurred within a period prior to the cache miss. Furthermore, in some examples, the operations further include servicing the access request to the computer memory based, at least in part, on the amount of the cache resources used to service the additional cache misses within the period prior to the cache miss.


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