Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Hierarchical memories
Patent
1996-11-12
1998-10-20
Swann, Tod R.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Hierarchical memories
395874, 395728, 395732, 395856, 711151, G06F 1318
Patent
active
058261095
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides for executing load instructions with a processor having a non-blocking cache memory, wherein individual load operations are dispatched to the cache memory and the cache memory signals the prevent the load operation from being sent to external memory when the load operation misses the cache memory and there is already a currently pending bus cycle to the same cache line. This helps reduce bus traffic on the external bus.
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Abramson Jeffery M.
Akkary Haitham
Glew Andrew F.
Hinton Glenn J.
Konigsfeld Kris G.
Intel Corporation
Peikari J.
Swann Tod R.
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