Intelligent cache replacement mechanism with varying and...

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2006-07-11

2010-11-30

Thai, Tuan V. (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S100000, C711S128000, C711S136000, C711S154000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07844778

ABSTRACT:
A method for replacing cached data is disclosed. The method in one aspect associates an importance value to each block of data in the cache. When a new entry needs to be stored in the cache, a cache block for replacing is selected based on the importance values associated with cache blocks. In another aspect, the importance values are set according to the hardware and/or software's knowledge of the memory access patterns. The method in one aspect may also include varying the importance value over time over different processing requirements.

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