Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Hierarchical memories
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Sparks, Donald (Department: 2187)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Hierarchical memories
C711S113000, C711S118000, C711S121000, C711S125000, C711S126000, C711S137000, C711S154000, C710S039000, C710S040000, C710S112000, C710S113000, C710S240000, C710S241000, C710S244000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06985999
ABSTRACT:
A microprocessor prioritizes cache line fill requests according to request type rather than issuing the requests in program order. In one embodiment, the request types include blocking accesses at highest priority, non-blocking page table walk accesses at medium priority, and non-blocking store allocation and prefetch accesses at lowest priority. The microprocessor takes advantage of the fact that the core logic clock frequency is a multiple of the processor bus clock frequency, typically by an order of magnitude. The microprocessor accumulates the various requests generated by the core logic each core clock cycle during a bus clock cycle. The microprocessor waits until the last core clock cycle before the next bus clock cycle to prioritize the accumulated requests and issues the highest priority request on the processor bus.
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Henry G. Glenn
Hooker Rodney E.
Davis E. Alan
Farrokh Hashem
Huffman James W.
IP-First LLC
Sparks Donald
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