US 8,984,228 B2
Providing Common Caching Agent For Core And Integrated Input/Output (IO) ModuleGeneral
US 8,984,228 B2
Providing Common Caching Agent For Core And Integrated Input/Output (IO) Module
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Edward Dudek, Jr.
Art Unit:
2136 Memory Access and Control
Agent:
Inventors:
Yen-Cheng Liu; Robert G. Blankenship; Geeyarpuram N. Santhanakrishnan; Ganapati N. Srinivasa; Kenneth C. Creta; Sridhar Muthrasanallur; Bahaa Fahim
Assignee:
Priority:
12/13/11
Filed:
12/13/11
Granted:
03/17/15
Expiration:
07/30/33
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor having a plurality of cores, a shared cache memory, an integrated input/output (IIO) module to interface between the multicore processor and at least one IO device coupled to the multicore processor, and a caching agent to perform cache coherency operations for the plurality of cores and the IIO module. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F2212/452G06FY02D10/00Y02D