Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fractional or partial line usage prediction in a processor
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Application No.: US16849001Application Date: 2020-04-15
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Publication No.: US11182161B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: Mohit Karve , Edmund Joseph Gieske , Naga P. Gorti
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F12/14 ; G06F12/0802

Abstract:
An information handling system includes a memory subsystem; a processor; and a link connecting the processor and memory subsystem, the processor having a memory controller to manage load instructions; a data cache to hold data for use by the processor; a load store unit to execute load instructions; an instruction fetch unit to fetch load instructions and a cache line utility tracker (CUT) table having a plurality of entries, each entry having a utility field to indicate the portions of a cache line of the load instruction that were used by the processor. The system configured to: determine whether the load instruction is in the CUT Table and in response determine from the CUT Table whether to request a partial cache line; and in response to the data not being in the data cache, transmit a memory request for a partial cache line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210326138A1 FRACTIONAL OR PARTIAL LINE USAGE PREDICTION IN A PROCESSOR Public/Granted day:2021-10-21
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