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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard J. Eickemeyer, Rochester, MN (US);
Sheldon Levenstein, Austin, TX (US);
David S. Levitan, Austin, TX (US);
Mauricio J. Serrano, Bronx, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Instruction prefetching in a computer processor includes, upon a miss in an instruction cache for an instruction cache line: retrieving, for the instruction cache line, a prefetch prediction vector, the prefetch prediction vector representing one or more cache lines of a set of contiguous instruction cache lines following the instruction cache line to prefetch from backing memory; and prefetching, from backing memory into the instruction cache, the instruction cache lines indicated by the prefetch prediction vector.