Victim cache using direct intervention

A method, system, and device for enabling intervention across same-level cache memories. In a preferred embodiment, responsive to a cache miss in a first cache memory a direct intervention request is sent from the first cache memory to a second cache memory requesting a direct intervention that sati...

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Hauptverfasser: GUTHRIE GUY LYNN, STARKE WILLIAM JOHN, FIELDS, JR. JAMES STEPHEN, MCCREDIE BRADLEY DAVID, CLARK LEO JAMES
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Zusammenfassung:A method, system, and device for enabling intervention across same-level cache memories. In a preferred embodiment, responsive to a cache miss in a first cache memory a direct intervention request is sent from the first cache memory to a second cache memory requesting a direct intervention that satisfies the cache miss. In an alternate embodiment, direct intervention is utilized to access a same-level victim cache.