Texas Instruments Incorporated
Methods and apparatus for eviction in dual datapath victim cache system

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to evict in a dual datapath victim cache system. An example apparatus includes a cache storage, a cache controller operable to receive a first memory operation and a second memory operation concurrently, comparison logic operable to identify if the first and second memory operations missed in the cache storage, and a replacement policy component operable to, when at least one of the first and second memory operations corresponds to a miss in the cache storage, reserve an entry in the cache storage to evict based on the first and second memory operations.