Detecting unused cache lines

Details Detecting unused cache lines Detecting unused cache lines

2011-08-09

2011-08-09

Peugh, Brian R (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

Reexamination Certificate

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07996622

ABSTRACT:
In the event of a cache miss, data is written from main memory to the cache. To select a cache line to write the data to, cache lines in the cache that are not referenced during a certain interval are identified. One of the identified cache lines is selected and the data can be written to that cache line.

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