Reducing store operation busy times

• Main Authors: ORF DIANE L, O'NEILL ARTHUR J, JONES CHRISTINE C, FEE MICHAEL F, BERGER DEANNA POSTLES DUNN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.05.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

A computer product for reducing store operation busy times is provided. The computer product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes associating first and second platform registers with a cache array, determining that first and second store operations target a same wordline of the cache array, loading control information and data of the first and second store operation into the first and second platform registers and delaying a commit of the first store operation until the loading of the second platform register is complete. The method further includes committing the data from the first and second platform registers using the control information from the first and second platform registers to the wordline of the cache array at a same time to thereby reduce a busy time of the wordline of the cache array.