Color-based cache monitoring

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition

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C711S118000, C711S133000, C711S134000, C711S141000, C711S154000

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07895392

ABSTRACT:
Color-based caching allows each cache line to be distinguished by a specific color, and enables the manipulation of cache behavior based upon the colors of the cache lines. When multiple threads are able to share a cache, effective cache management is critical to overall performance. Color-based caching provides an effective method to better utilize a cache and avoid unnecessary cache thrashing and/or pollution. The color based caching can be monitored to improve memory performance and guarantee Quality-Of-Service of cache utilization.

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