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- Patent Title: Processor, method, and system for cache partitioning and control for accurate performance monitoring and optimization
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Application No.: US15721223Application Date: 2017-09-29
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Publication No.: US10482017B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Karl I. Taht , Christopher B. Wilkerson , Ren Wang , James J. Greensky
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0831 ; G06F12/0846 ; G06F12/128

Abstract:
Processor, method, and system for tracking partition-specific statistics across cache partitions that apply different cache management policies is described herein. One embodiment of a processor includes: a cache; a cache controller circuitry to partition the cache into a plurality of cache partitions based on one or more control addresses; a cache policy assignment circuitry to apply different cache policies to different subsets of the plurality of cache partitions; and a cache performance monitoring circuitry to track cache events separately for each of the cache partitions and to provide partition-specific statistics to allow comparison between the plurality of cache partitions as a result of applying the different cache policies in a same time period.
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