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Range based flushing mechanism

US11288191B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Hema Chand Nalluri · Hyderabad, IN
Aditya Navale · Folsom, US
Altug Koker · Cameron Park, US
Brandon Fliflet · Park Village, US
Jeffery S. Boles · Folsom, US
James Valerio · Hillsboro, US
Vasanth Ranganathan · Cameron Park, US
Anirban Kundu · Redwood City, US
Pattabhiraman K · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 23, 2020
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 23, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02D10/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus to facilitate memory flushing is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a cache memory, one or more processing resources, tracker hardware to dispatch workloads for execution at the processing resources and to monitor the workloads to track completion of the execution, range based flush (RBF) hardware to process RBF commands and generate a flush indication to flush data from the cache memory and a flush controller to receive the flush indication and perform a flush operation to discard data from the cache memory at an address range provided in the flush indication.

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