Patent ID: 7350016

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor, including a multiplexed bus interface through which to send a column address portion of an address to a memory, and a cache control circuit to drive a row address portion of the address on the multiplexed bus interface and a command to open a memory page containing data for a plurality of ways, wherein the cache control circuit is to send the column address portion through said multiplexed bus interface subsequent to said row address portion; the memory to receive the column address portion comprising a most critical chunk indicator to indicate a portion of a requested cache line that is to be returned from the memory to the processor before another other portion of the requested cache line; address translation logic to generate the address; a tag memory to lookup a tag portion of said address and to generate a way indicator if a hit occurs, wherein said row address is also to specify a single row in a second single bank memory array, wherein said second single bank memory array is also to contain data for each of said plurality of ways, and wherein both said single bank memory array and said second single bank memory array are configured to return data in response to said command.