Tarun Nakra

CACHE SYSTEM WITH BIASED CACHE LINE REPLACEMENT POLICY AND METHOD THEREFOR

PROMOTING TRANSACTIONS HITTING CRITICAL BEAT OF CACHE LINE LOAD REQUESTS

Merging demand load requests with prefetch load requests

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING AGGRESSIVENESS OF A PRE-FETCHER

TWO LEVEL REPLACEMENT SCHEME OPTIMIZES FOR PERFORMANCE, POWER, AND AREA

PROBE FILTER FOR SHARED CACHES

Partially sectored cache

Method and apparatus including a probe filter for shared caches utilizing inclusion bits and a victim probe bit

Allocating store queue entries to store instructions for early store-to-load forwarding

STORE REPLAY POLICY