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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Serena Leung, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Ramaswamy Sivaramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Joann Lam, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Smentek, Cupertino, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for snooping caches is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a number of processing nodes and a cache shared by each of the processing nodes. The cache is partitioned such that each of the processing nodes utilizes only one assigned partition. If a query by a processing node to its assigned partition of the cache results in a miss, a cache controller may determine whether to snoop other partitions in search of the requested information. The determination may be made based on history of where requested information was obtained from responsive to previous misses in that partition.