Memory pipeline control in a hierarchical memory system
OwnerAbhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy Anderson +2inventors
InventorsAbhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy Anderson, Kai Chirca, David Matthew Thompson
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OwnerAbhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy Anderson +2inventors
InventorsAbhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy Anderson, Kai Chirca, David Matthew Thompson
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In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core generating memory transactions, a lower level cache memory with a lower memory controller, and a higher level cache memory with a higher memory controller having a memory pipeline. The higher memory controller is connected to the lower memory controller by a bypass path that skips the memory pipeline. The higher memory controller: determines whether a memory transaction is a bypass write, which is a memory write request indicated not to result in a corresponding write being directed to the higher level cache memory; if the memory transaction is determined a bypass write, determines whether a memory transaction that prevents passing is in the memory pipeline; and if no transaction that prevents passing is determined to be in the memory pipeline, sends the memory transaction to the lower memory controller using the bypass path.
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