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Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018

Filed:

May. 23, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

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);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 2212/283 (2013.01); G06F 2212/452 (2013.01);
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.


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