A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A CPU CACHE MEMORY FOR NON-CPU RELATED TASKS

摘要

There is provided a processor for use in a computing system, said processor comprising at least one Central Processing Unit, CPU, a cache memory coupled to the at least one CPU, and a control unit coupled to the cache memory and arranged to obscure the existing data in the CPU cache memory, and assign control of the CPU cache memory to at least one other entity within the computing system. There is also provided a method of using a CPU cache memory for non-CPU related tasks in a computing system.