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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gilles Pokam, Livermore, CA (US);
Jared Warner Stark, IV, Portland, OR (US);
Niranjan Kumar Soundararajan, Bengaluru, IN;
Oleg Ladin, Kaliningrad, RU;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to branch prefetch mechanisms for mitigating front-end branch resteers are described. In an embodiment, predecodes an entry in a cache to generate a predecoded branch operation. The entry is associated with a cold branch operation, where the cold branch operation corresponds to an operation that is detected for a first time after storage in an instruction cache and wherein the cold branch operation remains undecoded since it is stored at a location in a cache line prior to a subsequent location of a branch operation in the cache line. The predecoded branch operation is stored in a Branch Prefetch Buffer (BPB) in response to a cache line fill operation of the cold branch operation in an instruction cache. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.