US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 25 for "Dynamically altering tracking granularity in a region-based cache directory" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,594, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamically altering tracking granularity in a region-based cache directory" was invented by Amit Apte (Austin, Texas) and Ganesh Balakrishnan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in a cache directory, storing a set of entries corresponding to one or more memory regions having a first region size when the cache directory is in a first configuration, and based on a workload sparsity metric, reconfiguring the cache directory to a second configuration. In the second configuration, each entry in the set of entries corre...