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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Inventors:
Edward Mclellan, Holliston, MA (US);
Alexander Rucker, Stanford, CA;
Shay Gal-On, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srilatha Manne, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/0893 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0893 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01); G06F 2212/452 (2013.01); G06F 2212/602 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/608 (2013.01);
Abstract
The hit rate of a L1 icache when operating with large programs is substantially improved by reserving a section of the L1 icache for regular instructions and a section for non-instruction information. Instructions are prefetched for storage in the instruction section of the L1 icache based on information in the non-instruction section of the L1 icache.