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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2022
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Douglas Raye Reed, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 2212/602 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a prefetching method implemented in a microprocessor, the prefetching method comprising: issuing all prefetches remaining for a memory block as L3 prefetches based on a set of conditions; and issuing L2 prefetches for cache lines corresponding to the L3 prefetches upon reaching the end of the memory block.