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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher B. Wilkerson, Portland, OR (US);
Ren Wang, Portland, OR (US);
Namakkal N. Venkatesan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Patrick Lu, Mesa, AZ (US);
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 2212/602 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6028 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments provide for a processor comprising a cache, a prefetcher to select information according to a prefetcher algorithm and to send the selected information to the cache, and a prefetch tuning buffer including tuning state for the set of candidate prefetcher algorithms, wherein the prefetcher is to adjust operation of the prefetcher algorithm based on the tuning state.