An apparatus and method within a pipeline microprocessor are provided for allocating a cache line within an internal data cache upon a write miss to the data cache. The that apparatus and method allow data to be written to the allocated cache line before fill data for the allocated cache line is received...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6553473?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6553473 - Byte-wise tracking on write allocate
