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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022

Filed:

May. 07, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation;

Inventors:

Mohit Karve, Austin, TX (US);

Edmund Joseph Gieske, Cedar Park, TX (US);

George W. Rohrbaugh, III, Charlotte, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 2212/452 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information handling system, method, and processor that detects a store instruction for data in a processor where the store instruction is a reliable indicator of a future load for the data; in response to detecting the store instruction, sends a prefetch request to memory for an entire cache line containing the data referenced in the store instruction, and preferably only the single cache line containing the data; and receives, in response to the prefetch request, the entire cache line containing the data referenced in the store instruction.


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