TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCREASING ASSOCIATIVITY OF A DIRECT-MAPPED CACHE USING COMPRESSION

摘要

Technologies for increasing associativity of a direct mapped cache using compression include an apparatus that includes a memory to store data blocks, a cache to store a subset of the data blocks in various of physical cache blocks, and a memory management unit (MMU). The MMU is to compress data blocks associated with locations of the main memory that are mapped to a physical cache block and write the compressed data blocks to the physical cache block if the combined size of the compressed blocks satisfies a threshold size. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.