公开(公告)号：US20180232311A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15430765

申请日：2017-02-13

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Ishwar S. Bhati ,  Huichu Liu ,  Jayesh Gaur ,  Kunal Korgaonkar ,  Sasikanth Manipatruni ,  Sreenivas Subramoney ,  Tanay Karnik ,  Hong Wang ,  Ian A. Young

IPC: G06F12/0831 ,  G06F12/0875 ,  G06F12/0811

CPC classification number: G06F13/1642 ,  G06F12/0811

Abstract: A processor includes a processing core and a cache controller including a read queue and a separate write queue. The read queue is to buffer read requests of the processing core to a non-volatile memory, last level cache (NVM-LLC), and the write queue is to buffer write requests to the NVM-LLC. The cache controller is to detect whether the write queue is full. The cache controller further prioritizes a first order of sending requests to the NVM-LLC when the write queue contains an empty slot, the first order specifying a first pattern of sending the read requests before the write requests, and prioritizes a second order of sending requests to the NVM-LLC in response to a determination that the write queue is full, the second order specifying a second pattern of alternating between sending a write request from the write queue and a read request from the read queue.

公开(公告)号：US10331582B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-25

申请号：US15430765

申请日：2017-02-13

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Ishwar S. Bhati ,  Huichu Liu ,  Jayesh Gaur ,  Kunal Korgaonkar ,  Sasikanth Manipatruni ,  Sreenivas Subramoney ,  Tanay Karnik ,  Hong Wang ,  Ian A. Young

IPC: G06F13/16 ,  G06F12/0811

Abstract: A processor includes a processing core and a cache controller including a read queue and a separate write queue. The read queue is to buffer read requests of the processing core to a non-volatile memory, last level cache (NVM-LLC), and the write queue is to buffer write requests to the NVM-LLC. The cache controller is to detect whether the write queue is full. The cache controller further prioritizes a first order of sending requests to the NVM-LLC when the write queue contains an empty slot, the first order specifying a first pattern of sending the read requests before the write requests, and prioritizes a second order of sending requests to the NVM-LLC in response to a determination that the write queue is full, the second order specifying a second pattern of alternating between sending a write request from the write queue and a read request from the read queue.