Patent ID: 9430410
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for supporting a plurality of accesses of a data cache, comprising: accessing a plurality of requests to access said data cache, wherein said data cache comprises a plurality of blocks; responsive to said plurality of requests to access said data cache, accessing a tag memory that maintains a plurality of copies of tags for each entry in said data cache and identifying tags that correspond to individual requests of said plurality of requests; and accessing said data cache based on said tags that correspond to said individual requests, wherein a plurality of requests to access a same block of said plurality of blocks causes an access arbitration that is executed in the same clock cycle as said accessing said tag memory and that determines, based on said requests to access said same block and without considering whether access to particular lines of said same block are requested, which of said individual requests is granted.