Intel Corporation

Peng-Fei Chuang

Kingsum Chow

Shih-Lien L Lu

Christopher B Wilkerson

Zeshan A Chishti

Seth H Pugsley

Robert L Scott

Aamer Jaleel

Khun Ban

Shruthi A Deshpande

A processor includes a cache, a prefetcher module to select information according to a prefetcher algorithm, and a prefetcher algorithm selection module. The prefetcher algorithm selection module includes logic to select a candidate prefetcher algorithm determine and store memory addresses of predicted memory accesses of the candidate prefetcher algorithm when performed by the prefetcher module, determine cache lines accessed during memory operations, and evaluate whether the determined cache lines match the stored memory addresses. The prefetcher algorithm selection module further includes logic to adjust an accuracy ratio of the candidate prefetcher algorithm, compare the accuracy ratio with a threshold accuracy ratio, and determine whether to apply the first candidate prefetcher algorithm to the prefetcher module.

Instruction and logic for run-time evaluation of multiple prefetchers

A computing device executes an application having a number of phases. The computing device collects performance data indicative of a number of performance attributes of the computing device during execution of the application. The performance attributes include page swap data, page fault data, and process queue data. The computing device merges data collected from a processor performance monitoring unit with data collected from an operating system of the computing device. The computing device partitions the performance data into a number of cluster models, applies a classification algorithm to each cluster model, and selects the cluster model with the lowest misclassification rate. The computing device associates each cluster of the cluster model to a phase of the software application. Compatible phases of software applications are scheduled based on the selected cluster model.

Identification of software phases using machine learning

In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one core having one or more execution units, a first cache memory and a first cache control logic. The first cache control logic may be configured to generate a first prefetch request to prefetch first data, where this request is to be aborted if the first data is not present in a second cache memory coupled to the first cache memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Constraining prefetch requests to a processor socket

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