A method and apparatus for enabling protection of a particular member of a cache during LRU victim selection. LRU state array includes additional “protection” bits in addition to the state bits. The protection bits serve as a pointer to identify the location of the member of the congruence class...http://www.google.com/patents/US7363433?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7363433 - Cache member protection with partial make MRU allocation
