Method and system to overlap pointer load cache misses

Details Method and system to overlap pointer load cache misses Method and system to overlap pointer load cache misses

2005-11-15

2005-11-15

Padmanabhan, Mano (Department: 2188)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Addressing combined with specific memory configuration or...

Addressing cache memories

C711S118000, C711S119000, C711S132000, C711S133000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06965962

ABSTRACT:
A computer implemented method of managing processor requests to load data items provides for the classification of the requests based on the type of data being loaded. In one approach, a pointer cache is used, where the pointer cache is dedicated to data items that contain pointers. In other approaches, the cache system replacement scheme is modified to age pointer data items more slowly than non-pointer data items. By classifying load requests, cache misses on pointer loads can be overlapped regardless of whether the pointer loads are part of a linked list of data structures.

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