Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1990-03-27
1993-11-09
Bowler, Alyssa H.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364DIG1, 36424345, G06F 1200, G06F 1300, G06F 1208
Patent
active
052610667
ABSTRACT:
A memory system (10) utilizes miss caching by incorporating a small fully-associative miss cache (42) between a cache (18 or 20) and second-level cache (26). misses in the cache (18 or 20) that hit in the miss cache have only a one cycle miss penalty, as opposed to a many cycle miss penalty without the miss cache (42). Victim caching is an improvement to miss caching that loads a small, fully associative cache (52) with the victim of a miss and not the requested line. Small victim caches (52) of 1 to 4 entries are even more effective at removing conflict misses than miss caching. Stream buffers (62) prefetch cache lines starting at a cache miss address. The prefetched data is placed in the buffer (62) and not in the cache (18 or 20). Stream buffers (62) are useful in removing capacity and compulsory cache misses, as well as some instruction cache misses. Stream buffers (62) are more effective than previously investigated prefetch techniques when the next slower level in the memory hierarchy is pipelined. An extension to the basic stream buffer, called multi-way stream buffers (62), is useful for prefetching along multiple intertwined data reference streams.
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Eustace Alan
Jouppi Norman P.
Bowler Alyssa H.
Digital Equipment Corporation
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