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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Thomas C. McDonald, Austin, TX (US);
Brent Bean, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/32 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3804 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/30134 (2013.01); G06F 9/321 (2013.01); G06F 9/3844 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: first logic configured to dynamically adjust a maximum prefetch count based on a total count of predicted taken branches over a predetermined quantity of cache lines; and second logic configured to prefetch instructions based on the adjusted maximum prefetch count.