System for maintaining a shared cache in a multi-threaded comput

Details System for maintaining a shared cache in a multi-threaded comput System for maintaining a shared cache in a multi-threaded comput

1997-05-30

2000-06-20

Chan, Eddie P.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

711159, 702206, G06F 1212

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060789948

ABSTRACT:
In a multi-threaded computing environment, a shared cache system reduces the amount of redundant information stored in memory. A cache memory area provides both global readable data and private writable data to processing threads. A collection mechanism monitors the amount of cache memory available to the processing threads. In particular, a collector thread is executed when needed to reclaim least recently used cache memory.

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