Patrol snooping for higher level cache eviction candidate...

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2006-01-19

2009-08-18

Tsai, Sheng-Jen (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

Reexamination Certificate

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07577793

ABSTRACT:
A computer system having patrol snoop sequencer that sequences through addresses of cache lines held in a higher level cache, making snoop reads using those addresses to a lower level cache. If a particular cache line held in the higher level cache is not held in the lower level cache, the particular cache line is identified as an eviction candidate in the higher level cache when a new cache line must be loaded into the higher level cache.

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