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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A method for accessing a cache including reading an access instruction for acquiring data; determining, according to a delay identifier carried by the access instruction, whether the access instruction produces a delay; accessing the cache and performing, according to a location identifier carried by the access instruction, a pre-fetch operation if a delay is produced; and modifying, according to a location where the data required by the access instruction is acquired, the delay identifier and the location identifier carried by the access instruction. The technical solutions solve the problem of a low hit rate upon cache access, reduce the probability of misses, and reduce an access delay caused by a level-by-level access to each level of cache upon target data acquisition, which correspondingly lowers the power consumption generated upon the cache access and improves the CPU performance.