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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yasuko Eckert, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nuwan Jayasena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Reena Panda, Austin, TX (US);
Onur Kayiran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael W. Boyer, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing memory prefetching includes determining whether to initiate prefetching. Upon a determination to initiate prefetching, a first memory row is determined as a suitable prefetch candidate, and it is determined whether a particular set of one or more cachelines of the first memory row is to be prefetched.