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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
May. 19, 2023
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sreenivas Subramoney, Bangalore, IN;
Stanislav Shwartsman, Haifa, IN;
Anant Nori, Bangalore, IN;
Shankar Balachandran, Bangalore, IN;
Elad Shtiegmann, Kefar Sava, IL;
Vineeth Mekkat, San Jose, CA (US);
Manjunath Shevgoor, San Jose, CA (US);
Sourabh Alurkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for prefetching pointer-referenced data. A method embodiment includes: tracking a plurality of load instructions which includes a first load instruction to access a first data that identifies a first memory location; detecting a second load instruction which accesses a second memory location for a second data, the second memory location matching the first memory location identified by the first data; responsive to the detecting, updating a list of pointer load instructions to include information identifying the first load instruction as a pointer load instruction; prefetching a third data for a third load instruction prior to executing the third load instruction; identifying the third load instruction as a pointer load instruction based on information from the list of pointer load instructions and responsively prefetching a fourth data from a fourth memory location, wherein the fourth memory location is identified by the third data.