Patent ID: 9612960
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, by at least one processor, that a plurality of virtual addresses map to a same physical address for accessing a data filter cache, the plurality of virtual addresses associated with one or more virtual tags: accessing, by at least one processor, the data filter cache and a level one (L1) data cache, the data filter cache comprising one or more first lines, the one or more first lines having a capacity that is less than a capacity of one or more second lines in the L1 data cache; determining, by at least one processor based at least in part on the accessing, that data was missed in the data filter cache; after determining that the data was missed in the data filter cache, accessing, by the at least one processor, the data in the L1 data cache, wherein the accessing comprises: storing, by the at least one processor, the data from the L1 data cache in the data filter cache.