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Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2015
Applicants:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;

Inventors:

Philip J. Rogers, Austin, TX (US);

Benjamin T. Sander, Austin, TX (US);

Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;

Assignees:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/121 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01); G06F 12/1081 (2016.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/12 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/121 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 12/12 (2013.01); G06F 2212/656 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor device includes a cache and a memory storing a set of counters. Each counter of the set is associated with a corresponding block of a plurality of blocks of the cache. The processor device further includes a cache access monitor to, for each time quantum for a series of one or more time quanta, increment counter values of the set of counters based on accesses to the corresponding blocks of the cache. The processor device further includes a transfer engine to, after completion of each time quantum, transfer the counter values of the set of counters for the time quantum to a corresponding location in a system memory.


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