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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2014
Mill Computing, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roger Rawson Godard, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arthur David Kahlich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Norman Hardy, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Allen Jay Baum, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mill Computing, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer processing system includes execution logic that generates memory requests that are supplied to a hierarchical memory system. The computer processing system includes a hardware map storing a number of entries associated with corresponding cache lines, where each given entry of the hardware map indicates whether a corresponding cache line i) currently stores valid data in the hierarchical memory system, or ii) does not currently store valid data in hierarchical memory system and should be interpreted as being implicitly zero throughout.