Method and apparatus for cache management
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsRainer W. Lienhart, Yen-Kuang Chen, Matthew Holliman, Minerva M. Yeung
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Abstract
A cache management operation. In one embodiment, a first recall value for a first unit of data is generated, a second recall value for a second unit of data is generated, and the first and second recall values are compared. The unit of data having the higher recall value is stored in a first section of a storage device. The unit of data having the lower recall value is stored in a second section of a storage device. A greater amount of compression is performed on the unit of data having the lower recall value.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- generating a first recall value for a first unit of data;
- generating a second recall value for a second unit of data;
- comparing the first and second recall values;
- storing in a first section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data that having a higher recall value;
- storing in a second section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having the lower recall value;
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- performing a greater amount of compression on one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having a lower recall value.
A method comprising:
- generating a first recall value for a first unit of data;
- generating a second recall value for a second unit of data;
- comparing the first and second recall values;
- storing in a first section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data that having a higher recall value;
- storing in a second section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having the lower recall value;
- compressing data stored in the first section of the storage unit by a first compression rate;
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- compressing data stored in the second section of the storage unit by a second compression rate, the second compression rate being higher than the first compression rate.
A computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method comprising:
- generating a first recall value for a first unit of data;
- generating a second recall value for a second unit of data;
- comparing the first and second recall values;
- storing in a first section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data that having a higher recall value;
- storing in a second section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having the lower recall value;
- and
- performing a greater amount of compression on one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having a lower recall value.
A computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method comprising:
- generating a first recall value for a first unit of data;
- generating a second recall value for a second unit of data;
- comparing the first and second recall values;
- storing in a first section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data that having a higher recall value;
- storing in a second section of a storage unit, one of the first unit of data and the second unit of data having the lower recall value;
- compressing data stored in the first section of the storage unit by a first compression rate;
- and
- compressing data stored in the second section of the storage unit by a second compression rate, the second compression rate being higher than the first compression rate.
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