Utilizing cache information to manage memory access and...

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2006-04-24

2009-08-25

Lane, Jack A (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S121000, C711S130000, C711S141000, C711S144000, C711S146000, C711S119000, C711S154000, C711S165000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07581064

ABSTRACT:
In a method of utilizing cache metadata to optimize memory access, cache metadata associated with a set of cache locations is inspected by software. The cache metadata is analyzed to determine memory utilization. Memory access is optimized based on results of the analysis of the cache metadata.

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