Intel Corporation

Evgeni Krimer

Jacob Doweck

Guillermo Savransky

Idan Mondjak

Zeev Sperber

Ronny Ronen

David J Sager

Stanislav Shwartsman

Shlomo Raikin

Adi Yoaz

Bishara Shomar

Ori Lempel

Omer Golz

Methods and apparatus relating to a hardware move elimination and/or next page prefetching are described. In some embodiments, a logic may provide hardware move eliminations based on stored data. In an embodiment, a next page prefetcher is disclosed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Tracking mechanism coupled to retirement in reorder buffer for indicating sharing logical registers of physical register in record indexed by logical register

A memory access management technique is disclosed, one embodiment of which relates to a technique to issue loads to a memory ahead of older store operations corresponding to the same target address. A processor may include load buffer entries having predictor table entries associated therewith, including saturation counters to record history of previous conflicts between loads and stores corresponding to the same target address. A watchdog unit may disable memory disambiguation (MD) if the MD causes too high a misprediction rate for load operation and store operation conflicts. In one embodiment, the MD is disabled if a flush counter value reaches a threshold.

Memory disambiguation techniques using counter ratio to selectively disable load/store conflict prediction

Counter-based memory disambiguation techniques for selectively predicting load/store conflicts

Memory access management techniques are described. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a technique to issue loads to a memory ahead of older store operations corresponding to the same target address. In an embodiment, a load operation may be predicted to not conflict with older pending store operations if a saturation counter corresponding to the load operation is below a threshold value and a maximum rate of mispredictions has not occurred. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

A device is presented including a processor. A local memory is connected to the processor. The processor includes a hot way cache accessing process. A method is presented that includes accessing a memory. The method includes processing a first plurality of memory cells and a second plurality of memory cells in the memory. The method determines if a memory block is a last recently accessed memory block. The method determines whether a memory block accessed is a hit or a miss. The method accesses a lower memory level if the memory block accessed is a miss. Also, processing the second plurality of memory cells for an exact block if the block accessed is a hit but not the last recently accessed memory block. And, providing the memory block for additional access if the memory block accessed is a hit and is a last recently accessed memory block.

Hot way caches: an energy saving technique for high performance caches

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Eilat, Israel

Evgeni Krimer