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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Satish Kumar Sadasivam, Erode, IN;
Puneeth A. H. Bhat, Bangalore, IN;
Shruti Saxena, Kanpur, IN;
Sangram Alapati, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to control of speculative demand loads. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving instructions for a branch in a program, detecting the branch load is in the cache, monitoring a number of completed loads for the program, determining a cache pollution ratio of executed loads to completed loads, providing the cache pollution ratio to a branch prediction unit, and altering load instructions for the branch based on the cache pollution ratio.