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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard J. Eickemeyer, Rochester, MN (US);
Kimberly M. Fernsler, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, TX (US);
David A. Hrusecky, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Elizabeth A. McGlone, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Accessing partial cachelines in a data cache including storing a first portion of a cacheline in a cache entry of the data cache; relaunching a load instruction targeting a second portion of the cacheline, wherein the second portion of the cacheline is not stored in the data cache; determining that the load instruction targets a portion of the cacheline not stored in the cache entry; storing the second portion of the cacheline in the data cache; and reading the second portion of the cacheline from the data cache according to the load instruction.