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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ren Wang, Portland, OR (US);
Kevin B. Theobald, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Zeshan A. Chishti, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Zhaojuan Bian, Shanghai, CN;
Aamer Jaleel, Northborough, MA (US);
Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing shared cache by multi-core processor. An example processing system comprises: a plurality of processing cores, each processing core communicatively coupled to a last level cache (LLC) slice; and a cache control logic coupled to the plurality of processing cores, the cache control logic configured to perform one of: making an LLC slice of an inactive processing core available to an active processing core or power gating the LLC slice, based on estimating cache requirements by active processing cores.