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Shared two level cache including apparatus for maintaining storage consistency

US5276848A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 1991
Grant dateJan 4, 1994
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2011

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F12/0897
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A multilevel cache buffer for a multiprocessor system in which each processor has a level one cache storage unit which interfaces with a level two cache unit and main storage unit shared by all processors. The multiprocessors share the level two cache according to a priority algorithm. When data in the level two cache is updated, corresponding data in level one caches is invalidated until it is updated.

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