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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Fadi Y. Busaba, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Dan F. Greiner, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Maged M. Michael, Danbury, CT (US);
Valentina Salapura, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Eric M. Schwarz, Gardiner, NY (US);
Timothy J. Slegel, Staatsburg, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Discontiguous storage locations are prefetched by a prefetch instruction. Addresses of the discontiguous storage locations are provided by a list directly or indirectly specified by a parameter of the prefetch instruction, along with metadata and information about the list entries. Fetching of corresponding data blocks to cache lines is initiated. A processor may enter transactional execution mode and memory instructions of a program may be executed using the prefetched data blocks.