APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSOR NON-WRITE-BACK CAPABILITY

• Main Authors: HISHAM SHAFI, VEDVYAS SHANBHOGUE, JAMES A COLEMAN, GILBERT NEIGER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.04.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

To provide a method for allowing software to selectively disable non-write-back lock accesses.SOLUTION: A hardware processor 100 includes: a plurality of logical processors; a control register 110 comprising a non-write-back lock disable bit; a cache 128 shared by the plurality of logical processors...