A system and method that partitions a snoop filter into sub-partitions that reflect an affinity between a given cluster of cache-coherent agents. The process of partitioning reduces messaging traffic between a cache coherent agents connected to a cache-coherent interconnect. A level of snoop filter partitioning using a range of addresses is disclosed. A unique way to define how many snoop filters are needed and which snoop filter is tracking which cache line, is disclosed. A hierarchy of snoop filters can be used with two levels: a cluster level and an interleaving level.

A method for configuring a computer system memory, includes powering on the computer system; retrieving options for initializing the computer system; assigning to a first segment of the memory a first pre-defined setting; assigning to a second segment of the memory a second pre-defined setting; and booting the computer system.

Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to reserve a block of physical memory communicatively coupled to a processor, allocate a first portion of the block of physical memory for use with one or more processes executing on the processor, the first portion configured as a single memory page having a first page size, and in response to a determination that an amount of physical memory required by the one or more processes executing on the processor exceeds a first threshold allocate additional memory to the first portion of the block of physical memory, and increase the single memory page from a first page size to a second page size. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

A technical solution to the technical problem of how to improve dispatch throughput for memory-centric commands bypasses address checking for certain memory-centric commands. Implementations include using an Address Check Bypass (ACB) bit to specify whether address checking should be performed for a memory-centric command. ACB bit values are specified in memory-centric instructions, automatically specified by a process, such as a compiler, or by host hardware, such as dispatch hardware, based upon whether a memory-centric command explicitly references memory. Implementations include bypassing, i.e., not performing, address checking for memory-centric commands that do not access memory and also for memory-centric commands that do access memory, but that have the same physical address as a prior memory-centric command that explicitly accessed memory to ensure that any data in caches was flushed to memory and/or invalidated.

Examples include techniques associated with mapping system memory physical addresses to proximity domains. Examples include mapping system memory physical addresses for a memory coupled with a multi-die system to proximity domains that include cores of a multi-core processor and the associated level 3 (L3) cache for use by each core included in a respective proximity domain. The mapping is to facilitate cache line ownership of a cache line in an L3 cache by an input/output device or agent located on a separate die from the multi-core processor.

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for sharing memory using a multi-ring shared, traversable and dynamic database. In aspects, the database may be synchronized and shared between multiple processes and/or operation mode protection rings of a system. The database may also be persisted to enable the management of information between hardware reboots and application sessions. The information stored in the database may be view independent, traversable, and resizable from various component views of the database. In some aspects, an event processor is additionally described. The event processor may use the database to allocate memory chunks of a shared heap to components/processes in one or more protection modes of the operating system.

A method of operating a storage device, including a first memory region having a lowest bit density, a second memory region having a medium bit density, and a third memory region having a highest bit density, includes determining a hotness of a logical address received with a write command and data to be written, from a host, based on the determined hotness being greater than a first hotness threshold, determining whether a wear level of the first memory region is greater than a wear threshold, and increasing the first hotness threshold and storing the data in the second memory region based on the wear level of the first memory region being greater than a threshold.

A method includes accessing a first memory component of a memory sub-system via a first interface, accessing a second memory component of the memory sub-system via a second interface, and transferring data between the first memory component and the second memory component via the first interface. The method further includes initially writing data in the first memory component via a first address window and accessing data in the second memory component via a second address window in response to caching the data in first memory component to the second memory component, wherein caching the data in the first memory component to the second component includes changing an address for the data from the first address window to the second address window.

A peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device includes a plurality of common functions performing operations associated with a PCIe interface according to a function type of each of the plurality of common functions, each of the plurality of common functions being programmable to be a function type selected from a plurality function types, and a function type controller determining the function type of each of the plurality of common functions based on function type setting information provided from a host. Each function type may be a physical function type, a virtual function type, or a disable function type.

The total memory space that is logically available to a processor in a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) module is increased to accommodate terabyte-sized amounts of data by utilizing the memory space in an external memory module, and by further utilizing a portion of the memory space in a number of other external memory modules.