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US 2014/0156935 A1Published application
Unified Exclusive Memory
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsShlomo Raikin, Zvika Greenfield
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a processor includes at least one execution unit, a near memory, and memory management logic. The memory management logic may be to manage the near memory and a far memory as a unified exclusive memory, where the far memory is external to the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims22
A processor comprising:
- at least one execution unit;
- a near memory;
- and
- memory management logic to manage the near memory and a far memory as a unified exclusive memory, wherein the far memory is external to the processor.
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A system comprising:
- a far memory;
- a processor, coupled to the far memory, including:
- a near memory;
- and
- memory management logic to manage the near memory and the far memory as a unified exclusive memory space, wherein the unified exclusive memory space is divided into a plurality of locations, each of a plurality of data blocks to be exclusively stored in the far memory or the near memory.
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A method, comprising:
- determining, by a processor, whether a requested data block is stored exclusively in a near memory of the processor;
- upon determining that the requested data block is not stored exclusively in the near memory:
- determining a first location of a far memory storing the requested data block;
- and
- moving the requested data block from the first location of the far memory to a second location of the near memory, wherein the far memory is external to the processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.