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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jorge E. Parra, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Ramadass Nagarajan, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Dynamic heterogeneous hashing function technology for balancing memory requests between multiple memory channels is described. A processor includes functional units and multiple memory channels, and a memory controller unit (MCU) coupled between them. The MCU includes a general-purpose hashing function block that defines a default interleaving sequence for memory requests to alternately access the multiple memory channels and multiple specific-purpose hashing function blocks that define different interleaving sequences for the memory requests to alternately access the multiple memory channels. The MCU also includes a hashing-function selection block. The hashing-function selection block is operable to select one of the specific-purpose hashing function blocks or the general-purpose hashing function block for a current memory request in view of a requesting functional unit originating the current memory request.