John Steven Dodson

MEMORY QUEUE HANDLING TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING IMPACT OF HIGH-LATENCY MEMORY OPERATIONS

Apparatus for scheduling memory refresh operations including power states

Memory queue handling techniques for reducing impact of high-latency memory operations

Method and apparatus for performing bus tracing with scalable bandwidth in a data processing system having a distributed memory

Method and apparatus for performing imprecise bus tracing in a data processing system having a distributed memory

Adaptive memory access speculation

Data processing system having no system memory

Layered local cache with lower level cache optimizing allocation mechanism

System and method for enabling weak consistent storage advantage to a firmly consistent storage architecture

Method and system of managing virtualized physical memory in a data processing system

Method and system of managing virtualized physical memory in a memory controller and processor system

Method and system of managing virtualized physical memory in a multi-processor system

Memory directory management in a multi-node computer system

Dynamic history based mechanism for the granting of exclusive data ownership in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) computer system

Speculative execution of instructions and processes before completion of preceding barrier operations

Modified-invalid cache state to reduce cache-to-cache data transfer operations for speculatively-issued full cache line writes

Data processing system having a physically addressed cache of disk memory