System and method to track changes in memory
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAlon Naveh, Abraham Mendelson
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Abstract
Briefly, a system and a method to efficiently track changes in memory or storage areas, for example, in cache memories of computers and electronic systems. A method in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes, for example, updating a tracking list with an address and/or a corresponding address to be updated of a changed entry in an intermediate memory. A system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention may include, for example, a tracking unit to track the locations of potential data discrepancies between a reference memory and an intermediate memory.
Claims51
An apparatus comprising a tracking unit to store a list of addresses in a reference memory corresponding to addresses of changed entries in an intermediate memory.
A processing platform comprising:
- an intermediate memory;
- a reference memory;
- and
- a tracking unit to store a list of addresses in said reference memory corresponding to addresses of modified entries in said intermediate memory.
A system comprising:
- an intermediate memory;
- a reference memory;
- a tracking unit to store a list of addresses in said reference memory corresponding to addresses of changed entries in said intermediate memory;
- and
- a processor coupled to said tracking unit.
A method comprising updating a tracking list with an address in a reference memory corresponding to an address of a changed entry in an intermediate memory.
A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions that, if executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method comprising updating a tracking list with an address in a reference memory corresponding to an address of a modified entry in an intermediate memory.
An apparatus comprising means for updating a tracking list with an address in a reference memory corresponding to an address of a changed entry in an intermediate memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.