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Selection of variable memory-access size

US10754773B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Andreea Anghel · Adliswil, CH
Cedric Lichtenau · Stuttgart, DE
Gero Dittmann · New York, US
Peter Altevogt · Ettlingen, DE
Thomas Pflueger · Echterdingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 11, 2017
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 10, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2212/27
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for dynamically selecting a size of a memory access may be provided. The method comprises accessing blocks having a variable number of consecutive cache lines, maintaining a vector with entries of past utilizations for each block size, and adapting said block size before a next access to the blocks.

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