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US 7,353,338 B2Granted
Credit mechanism for multiple banks of shared cache
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsYen-Cheng Liu, Krishnakanth Sistla, George Cai, Ganapati Srinivasa, Geeyarpuram Santhanakrishnan
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage credits in a computing system with multiple banks of shared cache are described. In one embodiment, a credit request from a processor core is translated into a physical credit that corresponds to one of the multiple banks of shared cache.
Claims30
An apparatus comprising:
- a credit translation logic coupled between a processor core and one or more banks of shared cache to translate a credit requested by the processor core into a physical credit that corresponds to one of the one or more banks of shared cache.
A method comprising:
- receiving a credit request from a processor core;
- and
- translating the credit request into a physical credit, the physical credit corresponding to one of one or more banks of shared cache.
A system comprising:
- a first logic to generate a bank selection signal based on a request from a processor core;
- a second logic to send a physical credit to one or more banks of shared cache based on the bank selection signal;
- and
- an interconnection to couple the processor core to the one or more banks of shared cache.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.