Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adaptive spatial access prefetcher apparatus and method
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Application No.: US16024808Application Date: 2018-06-30
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Publication No.: US10713053B2Publication Date: 2020-07-14
- Inventor: Rahul Bera , Anant Vithal Nori , Sreenivas Subramoney , Hong Wang
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/38
- IPC: G06F9/38 ; G06F12/0875 ; G06F12/0862 ; G06F12/084

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for adaptive spatial accelerated prefetching. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: execution circuitry to execute instructions and process data; a Level 2 (L2) cache to store at least a portion of the data; and a prefetcher to prefetch data from a memory subsystem to the L2 cache in anticipation of the data being needed by the execution unit to execute one or more of the instructions, the prefetcher comprising a buffer to store one or more prefetched memory pages or portions thereof, and signature data indicating detected patterns of access to the one or more prefetched memory pages; wherein the prefetcher is to prefetch one or more cache lines based on the signature data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190310853A1 ADAPTIVE SPATIAL ACCESS PREFETCHER APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-10-10
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