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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2010
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael C. Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael C. Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing a parallel cache hierarchy in a processing unit. The method includes receiving an instruction from a scheduler unit, where the instruction comprises a load instruction or a store instruction; determining that the instruction includes a cache operations modifier that identifies a policy for caching data associated with the instruction at one or more levels of the parallel cache hierarchy; and executing the instruction and caching the data associated with the instruction based on the cache operations modifier.